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

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Without a new policy including vaccines, the government will continue to slaughter every flock with a bird flu infection to ...

Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently identified in four dairy cow herds, nearly one year ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

A new H5N1 bird flu mutation has appeared in a cluster of infected dairy cows. It's a genetic change that scientists say ...

The ongoing bird flu outbreak has led to wild bird deaths, slaughtered livestock, and hazardous conditions for dairy industry ...

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...

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Millions of birds in U.S. poultry farms and some cattle herds have been affected, but the overall risk to humans remains low. Still, a number of human cases have been documented as a new CDC ...

This flu season is a "high-severity" season for all age groups. An estimated 33 million people have suffered from the flu so far this season. In Florida, like the rest of the U.S., the predominant ...