The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released an advisory recommending clinicians expedite subtyping of type ...

The first human death from bird flu in the United States occurred on Jan. 6 in a Louisiana hospital, less than three weeks ...

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...

“However, we do need subtype confirmation to make sure it's H5, and sub-type testing is not widely accessible. But most labs ...

Bird flu has been detected in a Lincoln wastewater sample, but it isn't clear whether the virus came from animals, animal ...

The nation has recorded its first fatality from the H5N1 bird flu ... Monday that a patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with a severe bird flu case died. This, as well as the other ...

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.

The US Department of Health and Human Services will award $590 million to Moderna to continue developing a vaccine to protect ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking that people with flu severe enough to require hospitalization ...

When she first went to the hospital she tested positive for influenza ... subtype. Further testing suggested she had a high viral load of a novel influenza A infection, which researchers eventually ...