Health officials began providing the safety gear long before the first human case in California was announced in October.

USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.

As the H5N1 avian influenza virus continues its rampage through U.S. dairy cow herds, it has also infected human farm workers ...

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.

Birds and humans have different types of receptors in their respiratory tract that flu viruses attach to, like a lock ...

Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the western province of British ...

New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...

But if that were to happen, a pandemic could unfold, scientists have said. Earlier in November, the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

The health agency now urges proactive testing and treatment for the virus among any workers who were exposed to H5N1.

Almost from the beginning of the spread of H5N1 bird flu among farms and ranches in the U.S. earlier this year, experts and ...

If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...