Backyard flocks of birds have tested positive for bird flu, also known as H5N1. Here's what you need to know from public health officials.

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

Trump's pick for health secretary has a record of attacking vaccines. In fact he's even taken direct aim at bird flu shots.

RSV has peaked and is now declining in New York. This season’s peak happened about two weeks later than last year, but it was ...

British Columbia ostrich farmers ordered to cull a herd of 400 due to an avian flu outbreak are holding onto hope that the ...

Health officials have identified another possible case of bird flu in a child — this time in San Francisco. The San Francisco ...

Does it feel like everyone around you is sick right now? Your Local Epidemiologist New York has a winter virus report as we ...

At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the ...

Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s ...

Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...

Nationally, this avian flu sickened at least 66 people in 2024, mostly dairy farmworkers who came in contact with diseased ...

The U.S. has developed a bird flu vaccine that can be prepared when needed. It’s not currently available because health ...