Feb. 4, visiting professor Derek A.T. Cummings at the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health ...

A simple model projected which strains were likely to be highly transmissible, with implications for public health.

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

were obtained from the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID). Multiple sequence alignments were carried out by using the FASTA module embedded in BioEdit version 7.2.1.

GODLEY, Texas — Flu cases are on the rise at local schools and hospitals, and the illness is forcing one school district to shut down for the remainder of the week. Godley ISD announced on ...

The flu is always a nasty foe—and it’s particularly vicious this year. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been at least 12 million flu ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Two Virginia children have died after they got sick with the flu, according to the Virginia Health Department (VDH), marking the first two pediatric influenza deaths in ...

Thousands of new bird flu cases have emerged in recent months among New York flocks, including in parks and even backyard coops. The spread set off a fresh round of public health alerts among ...

More than 126,800 birds in New York have been affected by the avian flu since 2022, including thousands of new infections uncovered in recent months in New York parks, commercial flocks and ...

Americans are in the throes of flu season in large swaths of the country. In California, influenza activity continues to be high, the California Department of Public Health reports. RSV activity ...

State agriculture officials on Tuesday announced a commercial flock of turkey has tested positive for bird flu in North Carolina. According to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture ...