HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

Cambodia's health ministry today announced another human H5N1 avian flu case of the year, involving a 5-year-old boy from ...

NACCHO selects 5 local health departments as mentors and 11 as mentees for the 2025 Wastewater Monitoring Mentorship Program.

H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids, but the new ...

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) yesterday released its 2024 Forces of Change Survey ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Biosafety level (BSL)-3 facilities exist in a diffuse regulatory environment, where requirements depend on factors such as the kinds of pathogens under study, the type of research being conducted, and ...

New CDC research suggests the H5N1 avian influenza virus that infected a Michigan dairy farmworker can be transmitted through the air. The revelation, the study's authors wrote, suggests "an ...

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

The so-called "big, beautiful bill" will lead to millions of fewer people having health coverage in the United States. It will make the country less prepared to detect and respond to a future pandemic ...

South Africa is grappling with a resurgence of the H5N1 bird flu, following outbreaks on poultry farms in Tswaing and Mkhondo ...

A CDC representative told the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that measles cases have hit a 'plateau' in the U.S ...