Flu expert says bird flu virus may be spread by infected feces blowing in the wind. Dr. Michael Osterholm is a medical ...
Recent history makes clear that microbiological disasters can strike anytime. But a longer history should remind us of the ...
David J. Cennimo, an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rutgers New ...
Factory farms create the ideal breeding grounds for infectious diseases like bird flu. The vast majority of U.S. broiler chickens (78%) and U.S. egg laying hens (75%) are raised on factory farms, ...
The spread of H5N1 into new species alarms researchers who say it could reassort in a new species, like pigs, leading to more ...
H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the ...
Could the threat of another worldwide pandemic be on the way? On Jan. 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first American, a man in Louisiana, had died from severe avian ...
For the first time since the nationwide outbreak began in 2022, highly pathogenic avian influenza has struck a commercial ...
Bird flu has been detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia for the first time since the current outbreak began in 2022, officials say. A Louisiana resident has died after being ...
The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate ...
The agency says labs should accelerate testing on patients hospitalized with the flu within 24 hours of their admission.
The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan ...