So far, 67 human bird flu cases have been confirmed in the U.S., the CDC says. A child in San Francisco was recently confirmed to be the third human case of bird flu in the United States in which ...

The government has two bird flu vaccine candidates in limited quantities in its stockpile. Biden administration officials have said they have no current plans to authorize them. Dr. Nahid ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in ...

At the height of annual flu season, U.S. health officials on Thursday said clinicians should more quickly ensure people who are ill don't have bird flu. While the risk to the general public ...

While air sirens blaring are a daily occurrence in Ukraine, it's rare for drones to be shot out of the sky over the presidential palace. Politics latest: UK to give Ukraine new air defence system ...

The NHS says hospitals in England are "jampacked" after their busiest week of the winter so far - but flu cases have fallen slightly. Despite another 1,300 beds being opened up, only 6% of the ...

That possibility provides another reason to get an annual flu shot, she says. Many researchers believe that insufficient federal actions have been taken to manage bird flu thus far. Since 2022 ...

A man is recovering in the hospital after bravely acting as a human shield for his 21-year-old girlfriend during a near-fatal carjacking in Washington, D.C. The couple was sitting in their car in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The CDC has confirmed the positive bird flu case in a child in San Francisco. City health officials first reported on a presumptive case in a child on Jan. 10 and continue ...

"Clinicians had been using different vaccination strategies such as two doses of flu vaccine, especially with the stronger formulation (adjuvant) vaccine, believing it would provide a more robust ...

As of Dec. 21, 144.6 million doses of flu vaccine had been distributed in the United States for the 2024–25 season, according to the CDC. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly ...

and working on a vaccine for livestock." However, the conditions required for human-to-human transmission may be inevitable if the "continued circulation" of bird flu in large numbers of animals ...