A recent study showed a single mutation could make H5N1 spread among humans "which could jump-start a pandemic". And if it ...

First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first ...

A national recall was issued after an Oregon cat died from eating raw pet food contaminated with the bird flu.

A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country’s first severe case of ...

An investigation by KFF Health News reveals key problems in the U.S. response to bird flu, including deference to the farm ...

Connecticut has not been spared from the ongoing bird flu outbreak that has primarily been impacting livestock.

Worrisome news came out of Wisconsin earlier this month that the state’s first human case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza — also known as bird flu — had been confirmed in a farm worker in Barron ...

As reports of infected waterfowl grow, the Illinois Department of Public Health has released guidance for doctors and medical professionals who may come in cont ...

The CDC said Thursday that the mutations, detected in a sample taken from a Louisiana patient, may help bind the virus to the ...

After Gov. Gavin Newsom last week declared an emergency stemming from bird flu’s spread in dairy herds, local public health ...

COVID emerged suddenly, spread rapidly and killed millions of people around the world. Since then, I think it’s fair to say ...

HPAI also does not pose a food safety risk; properly handling and cooking eggs and poultry to an internal temperature of ...