Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or ...

A devastating wave of respiratory illnesses is sweeping across 40 US states, with millions already affected.

The flu antiviral baloxavir can reduce flu transmission in households, raising the possibility that it could be used ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This ...

This meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, has been a long time coming. Six weeks ago, the ...

Notes from a recent meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ COVID-19 Work Group show health ...

Robert Redfield, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that it is "not a question ...

So far, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed a staggering 41 outbreaks this year that struck down entire egg-laying flocks in Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...