Dr. William Schaffner, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine professor of medicine and preventive medicine, says the new ...

Over the past three years, avian influenza (H5N1) has spread around the U.S. and affected many species of birds and mammals, ...

With recent avian flu outbreaks making headlines and causing concern among health officials worldwide, many people wonder ...

On the day of arrival, no one suspected that the lion might be infected. Masks were arranged only by around 5 pm, long after ...

bWHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China Pandemic ...

The Department of Disease Control warns of rising Covid-19 cases—nearly 50,000 last week—and expects the outbreak to continue for 2–3 months. Flu cases are steady with 300,000+ infections and 33 ...

UP Forest Minister Arun Kumar Saxena on May 21 informed that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed an immediate action to shut the zoo due to bird flu. All the animals were being checked and any ...

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...

In other vaccine news, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has officially ordered placebo testing on new vaccines, a change that experts claim will be costly and — harkening back to polio vaccine ...

A patient in Louisiana with a severe case of the bird flu has died. Mutations in the virus are deepening concerns about the spread of H5N1. A patient who'd been hospitalized in Louisiana with ...

Birds without natural immunity that migrate or roost together in large flocks, such as geese, are most likely to die in large ...

The first death caused by H5N1 bird flu was reported in January 2025. Some believe the virus could eventually pose a ...