All Massachusetts dairy farms are 100 percent free of bird flu, state officials announced on Monday. At least 14 states ...

No trace of a highly-pathogenic bird flu has been found in dairy herds in Massachusetts, state officials said Monday.

Last week, a person in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite not having any exposure to animals. The state’s health department said the individual recovered from their illness but that a ...

A patient in Missouri who was hospitalized after an infection with bird flu had the H5N1 strain of the virus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Friday. The viral sequence ...

NEW YORK — Health officials on Thursday said they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu but believe it may be a rare instance of a “one-off” standalone illness. Investigators ...

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 (Healthday News) -- In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first time, U.S. health officials ...

PARIS, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The Czech Republic has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal ...

Unprecedented levels of the bird flu virus have been detected in wastewater samples from across Texas, raising alarms that the disease is adapting to infect a new host. Before March 2024 ...

Aug. 20, 2024 — Scientists have discovered why the flu vaccine can perform poorly. They found that a specific type of immune cell, called T follicular helper cells, indirectly controls the anti ...

According to a CDC avian flu update issued Friday, an investigation of last week's mysterious case of the Missouri bird flu patient found that a "household contact" of the patient also became ill ...