India's apex health research body has warned that H5N1 infection in humans has a high case fatality rate, exceeding 50 ...

It’s clear there’s no reason for optimism that H5N1 will fade away as a minor nuisance. To the contrary, the situation has only been trending worse.

The Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday it's purchased 500,000 doses of a human vaccine to protect against avian influenza for those most at risk from being exposed to the virus by infected ...

With numerous cases of avian influenza appearing in Ontario, experts are scrambling to prevent a potential mass outbreak.

A team of government veterinarians with the State Veterinary Institute Prague in the Czech Republic has found possible evidence of windborne H5N1 infections in chickens. In their paper posted on the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to reverse the firing of some employees who were involved in responding to the ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to impose its will on the federal workforce through mass firings, funding freezes and ...

The Trump administration plans to roll out a new strategy against the bird flu. There are few details, but to bring egg ...

But today – deep breath – it’s time to talk about bird flu. Over the past year, a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza ...

Canada reported its first domestically acquired human case of bird flu on Nov. 9, 2024. The teenage patient became very ill, ...

Seasonal influenza has reached its highest levels in over 15 years and has now surpassed COVID-19 deaths for the past two ...

Influenza has surpassed Covid-19 as the deadlier virus in the US this winter, with the CDC reporting over 16,000 flu-related ...