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

California health officials reported Tuesday that a child in Alameda Co. has been infected with bird flu; source unknown.

The CDPH, local health officials, and the CDC are investigating the source of the child's illness ... Sequencing shows that ...

Alameda County health officials are investigating a potential case of avian influenza, or bird flu, in a child experiencing ...

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.

Bird flu has spread far and wide, infecting a range of species like chickens, skunks, cows, foxes and polar bears. But it's ...

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 ...

It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up.

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 ...