Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection against H5N1, and children would benefit more from H5N1 vaccines.

Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the ...

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...

Pandemic influenza remains a significant global health threat, as signalled by the circulation and cross-species transmission of avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses from the clade 2.3.4.4b, including ...

Marc Johnson of the University of Missouri explains why wastewater surveillance became a crucial tool in tracking COVID outbreaks.

Bird flu. With that diagnosis in mind, one of Russo’s colleagues tried to get some bovine samples tested for H5N1, but the ...

Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and ...

For measles, one infected person can spread the virus to anywhere from 12 to 18 unvaccinated people, said Cervantes. This makes measles more transmissible than influenza and COVID-19, said Weaver of ...

The “quarantine fatigue” of 2020 became an ongoing “pandemic fatigue,” a complex set of emotions that continues to affect the ...

An Ohio father is speaking out about the serious dangers of the flu after his 4-year-old daughter was hospitalized with the ...

A Washington state pet food company is recalling one of its products due to possibility of it being contaminated with bird ...