Among animals, more than 169 million commercial poultry or backyard birds have been infected in the current H5N1 outbreak, ...

It takes several hours for the results of a polymerase chain reaction test, which “detects genetic material from a pathogen ...

Public health experts share concerns that the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could turn into a pandemic. What to know after Louisiana ...

A call-to-action has been made by the Global Virus Network, who are urging world governments to increase surveillance and ...

The first reported death from bird flu in the U.S. was a patient in Louisiana who had been exposed to infected sick and dead birds in backyard flocks, according to the American Hospital Association.

The spread of H5N1 avian influenza virus in the United States has sparked fears of a potential pandemic. The H5N1 virus is ...

Wastewater disease surveillance has become central to public health officials’ ability to track the H5N1 bird flu that's now ...

More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a ...

Too easily overlooked are non-influenza, non-COVID viruses and bacteria that are burgeoning and spreading unchecked — both in ...

Streptococcus Group A affects close to 20% of U.S. children, according to Dr. Joshua Osowicki, senior research fellow at the ...

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SOME OF THE SICK PATIENTS WITH THE FLU HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS MIGHT HAVE BIRD FLU, OR WE DON’T KNOW, PROBABLY NOT ONLY BECAUSE FOR WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR, BIRD FLU HAS NOT ...