Health experts fear the virus will take hold in other U.S. communities with low vaccination rates and that the spread could ...

This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.

Washington state recorded 388 influenza-related deaths between late 2024 and early 2025. Here’s why this winter’s flu season was so severe.

This year's flu season has become Washington state's deadliest in nearly a decade, totaling at least 388 deaths so far.

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has issued a bird flu warning after 19 birds were found to have died from the disease, and the H5N1 variant has been found on both sides of the Irish border ...

Brood XIV, one of the largest swarms of periodical cicadas, is set to rise from the ground for the first time in 17 years.

on Friday morning as part of an investigation into the cause of her death due to bird flu. The team collected 20 environmental and poultry samples, which will be sent for analysis to the National ...

“People are nervous about it,” added consumer advocate Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders. But, she said, “insurance companies don’t rely on these maps to decide who they ...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health ...

A new map by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) shows the state of nuclear weapons worldwide. There are an estimated 12,331 warheads globally as of early 2025. The United States and Russia ...

Now, the United Nations is urging member governments to take coordinated action to address the “unprecedented” spread of highly pathogenic bird flu — a threat to health, food security ...