One reason the outbreak went undetected for so long is that people thought it was unlikely that the virus would jump into ...

Public health officials and scientists have been on high alert since the second-ever human infection of a “highly pathogenic” ...

People keeping hobby chickens, which often mingle in the yard with wild birds, may want to avoid direct contact with their ...

It’s also difficult to know how virulent the disease would be, though some experts suspect it could cause illness more severe ...

face masks and social distancing where appropriate. The thought is that it will only be a matter of time before some new strain of avian influenza virus mutates enough to be able to infect humans ...

The bird flu has arrived in Colorado, and while it doesn’t represent anywhere near the threat that COVID-19 did at the ...

Connecticut is more prepared to address bird flu than it was for COVID-19, experts say. But questions still remain about ...

In April, the Texas Department of State Health Services issued a health alert for avian flu, specifically H5N1, after a Texas ...

All the rhetoric dismissing COVID as “just the flu” even as it killed more than 1.1 million Americans has left us less ...

Bird flu virus has been found in milk from infected dairy cattle. The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, is preparing in ...

The Health department has urged the public to remain vigilant following a spurt in H1N1 fever (swine flu) cases in Alappuzha. Officials said that 35 H1N1 cases had been reported in the district so far ...

So far, the current avian flu hasn’t picked up mutations that would ... Workers aren’t required to wear masks and other protection, however. States and the federal government could do a ...