The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday it will award $306 million in additional funding to monitor ...

Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu ...

To date this year, 61 human cases of H5N1 bird flu have been confirmed in the U.S ... Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases ...

The CDC has confirmed 65 cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans in 2024. Of those, 39 were associated with dairy herds and 23 with poultry farms and culling operations. For two cases, the source of ...

A patient was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu in Louisiana, the CDC said. This case is the first confirmed instance of a severe human infection linked to the H5N1 virus. The CDC said ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in the H5N1 bird flu virus that may increase ...

Bird flu cases are on the rise in the U.S., and the CDC is on high alert. With 66 confirmed human cases so far, officials are ...

H5N1 bird flu samples collected from a severely ... from a British Columbia teenager who was hospitalized with bird flu, the CDC said. Get local news you need to know to start your day with ...

also know as H5N1 or avian influenza, is a highly contagious disease among birds and poultry. There has never been a case, however, where humans have spread the bird flu to each other. Even with the ...

It can spread to other animals and to humans. The H5N1 bird flu isn’t new. The CDC says the virus was first identified in Southern China in domestic waterfowl in 1996. In 1997, it spread to 18 ...