The U.S. will rebuild its stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry matched to the current strain of the virus circulating ...
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), there are several licensed vaccines for avian influenza in poultry, ...
Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.
An infectious disease expert says the relatively mild cases of avian influenza detected so far among dairy workers don’t ...
The CDC advises testing hospitalized flu patients for bird flu within 24 hours to prevent delays in identifying human ...
Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...
More than 50,5 million birds in US poultry farms have been slaughtered because of outbreaks of avian flu among flocks in over forty states, according to the Department of Agriculture. The disease ...
The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...
PHAC has increased its risk assessment for avian flu, saying, while the risk remains low for the general public, the ...
The bird flu, also known as avian influenza and H5N1, was implicated in the first human death from the infectious disease on ...
The first human patient in the United States with a confirmed case of avian influenza has died, according to a press release ...