Dry weather in Pakistan has led to a surge in seasonal flu and respiratory virus cases. NIH reports 5 COVID-19, 147 swine flu, and 511 seasonal flu cases in December and January, urging citizens to ...

Georgia officials halted all in-state poultry sales, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded $590 ...

Bird flu has been detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia for the first time since the current outbreak began in ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them, scientists have ... Flu Virus Remains Infectious in Refrigerated ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...

Horses carry their own form of flu virus, and researchers say that if the two viruses combine, the consequences are unknown ...

Petersen said they will begin testing milk from dairy farms around Feb. 1. The department will work with labs to pull samples ...

The U.S. has developed a bird flu vaccine that can be prepared when needed. It’s not currently available because health ...

The U.S. will rebuild a stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry that match the strain of the virus circulating in ...

A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.

Genetic sequences of H5N1 bird flu viruses collected from a person in Louisiana who became severely ill show signs of development of several mutations thought to affect the virus’ ability to ...

H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.