The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

CDC officials said they opted to upgrade the advisory after seeing more patients whose illness cannot be traced back to an infected animal or bird. "That's a newer finding in the history of H5 - not ...

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek (Reuters) -People hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, was detected in wild birds in Packer Township earlier this month. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the two reports came from the same Carbon County ...

Doctors should use infection control measures if a hospitalized patient has suspected, probable, or confirmed H5N1, putting ...

In early December, health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, announced that an unknown illness had ...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services(DHS) on Thursday confirmed the state's first pediatric influenza-related death of ...

MILWAUKEE - The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has confirmed the first pediatric influenza-associated death in ...

A child in Wisconsin has died from the flu, the state's first pediatric flu death of the current flu season, the state Department of Health Services announced Thursday.

A child ill with fever and conjunctivitis in San Francisco tested positive for bird flu but had no known source of ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking that people with flu severe enough to require hospitalization ...

Trump's pick for health secretary has a record of attacking vaccines. In fact he's even taken direct aim at bird flu shots.