The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

If you really want to feed wild birds, you need to have the feeder in an area that your cat or dog is not able to access.

While pertussis — known as whooping cough — numbers have been spiking nationally, the South Dakota Department of Health ...

Health officials in California are now offering gift cards to encourage folks near farms to get tested for bird flu.

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there was in the winter. Experts say the ...

In early 2025, the women's prison outside of Fond du Lac had reported an outbreak of respiratory illnesses among prisoners.

Flu is a respiratory illness, and most people identify it through symptoms like sore throat, runny nose, cough, fatigue, and ...

Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

As the spring progresses in the northern hemisphere, the number of reported highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) ...

A single dose of the antiviral baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza) led to a lower incidence of influenza virus transmission to ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...