It's an unusual winter for respiratory illnesses. The flu is peaking twice: once in early January and again in February.

Over the past week, a series of developments have reaffirmed the imminent danger of an H5N1 “bird flu” pandemic, for which ...

Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according ...

San Mateo County public health officials reported finding H5N1 bird flu in a pet cat and a backyard poultry flock.

Nevada dairy cattle infected with a new bird flu strain, Type A H5N1 D1.1, raising concerns of multiple transmission channels ...

Of course there are many supermarkets where the shelves are completely empty and there are no eggs to be purchased at any ...

Media reports indicate Gerald Parker, DVM, PhD, will lead the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy ...

For the first time since 1952, publication of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was halted. It returned on Feb.

The CDC allegedly posted and swiftly deleted data suggesting bird flu could spread from cats to people in a table included in ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

As California's Central Valley makes headlines for the growing number of people testing positive for the bird flu from exposure to dairy cows, Rais Vohra, MD, professor at UC San Francisco, Fresno and ...