"We also need to ensure that farm workers are protected and should strongly consider offering them access to H5N1 vaccines," he said. "It's clear that the avian influenza outbreak is getting worse, ...

There is an inherent conflict of interest – and the potential for injury to public health – when a federal department both ...

H5 bird flu, a type of avian influenza, has infected dozens of people in the U.S., and spread to seven states and Canada this year. As more human cases arise, there's deepening worry over whether the ...

In 2009, H1N1 bird flu caused the first global flu pandemic in 40 years, with the first infections detected in California.

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Kemble addressed the media Thursday about possible sources of the H5 avian influenza virus. State officials are urging ...

Ducks and geese on a backyard farm in Oahu, the state's main island, tested positive for H5N1 last week, which was likely ...

A viral respiratory disease is causing a multi-state outbreak in wild birds, poultry and other animals. Bird flu has also lead to more than four dozen infections in people in the U.S. While most human ...

Prominent vaccine skeptic RFK, Jr., is a proven menace to public health. But with a bird flu outbreak looming, he is poised ...

Stat reports there's no evidence that the teen has infected anyone else. The source of the infection has not been determined. Meanwhile, Hawaii — which has strict agricultural rules to prevent the ...

Officials suspect wild migrating birds are likely to blame for the first known infection of a flock in Hawaii, which had been the last state in the country with no reported cases in poultry or wild ...

Outside the medical community, few people still know about all the diseases whose safe and effective vaccines RFK Jr. is ...