Over the past week, a series of developments have reaffirmed the imminent danger of an H5N1 “bird flu” pandemic, for which ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years.

New York City zoos are taking extra precautions after announcing the deaths of several ducks and wild birds amid concerns of ...

The map of flu activity across the United States continues to darken, both figuratively and literally, as case numbers spike upward in most states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the ...

Flu has surged to high levels across the US, straining hospitals. Experts discuss 2024-25 flu season trends, symptoms to ...

The new rules apply to ‘gatherings’ of ducks, geese, swans, pheasants, partridge, quail, chickens, turkeys and guinea fowl.

For the first time since 1952, publication of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was halted. It returned on Feb.

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed a new spillover of H5N1 avian flu in dairy cattle. This new detection involves the D1.1 ...

A second strain of H5N1 bird flu has been detected in US cattle Some experts believe that the risk to humans is low Infections have also been detected outside the US, in the United Kingdom European au ...