The Free Press interviewed Dr. Kimberly Dodd, the dean of the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine, about efforts to tame the ...

The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...

Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...

More than 100 chickens, geese, ducks and other birds at Hess-Hathaway Park in Waterford have been culled after some tested ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

For influenza viruses, imperfection is a strength. They constantly mutate, producing new strains that challenge immune ...

A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.

This means when Moffitt is at the grocery store, she picks up extra gallons of water to store in case of an emergency. She ...

The bird flu virus that brought a Canadian teen to the “brink of death” may have mutated while inside her body to become more ...

The CDC says the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus ...

H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.