Six health care workers in the US who were in close contact with a patient known to have bird flu developed mild respiratory ...

STAT recently spoke to Erica Pan, California’s state epidemiologist, about what public health officials are doing to monitor ...

The United States has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an ongoing outbreak of the bird flu virus H5N1 in dairy cattle.

US states had reported outbreaks of H5N1 flu in dairy cows as of October 4, 2024. That amounted to a total of 255 affected ...

California reported its first H5N1 outbreaks in dairy cows in August. The two infected humans confirmed in the state on ...

Researchers reveal how H5N1 viruses rapidly adapted to mammals through genetic reassortment and specific mutations, raising ...

Dhillon is an instructor in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Federal agencies are studying a case of human avian influenza in which the infected person did not have contact with affected ...

Federal scientists are closely studying H5N1 genetic sequences from California dairy workers in search of any dangerous ...

The spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus across 14 states in the US has baffled health experts, who are waiting for a few tests ...

Hospital workers reported respiratory symptoms after encountering a Missouri patient with H5N1 who had not been exposed to ...

Both patients were dairy workers whose illnesses were mild. Investigators are continuing to evaluate the contacts of a ...