Hungary and Italy have both reported an outbreak of the severe H5N1 avian influenza virus in the first such cases in the ...

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

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

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 ...

Federal officials plan to double the stockpile of emergency bird flu vaccines as they identify more people infected with the ...

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

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

The H5N1 strain first appeared in geese in 1996 and has caused bird outbreaks since then. Since 2020, a new variant of this ...

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

Two million Australian chickens have already been killed in the nation's bird flu outbreak — and that's before the deadliest ...