WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A child in California has tested positive for bird flu, despite having no known ...

The bird flu crisis, driven by the H5N1 virus, began several years ago, but ramped up considerably in April when dairy cows ...

California's public health department reported a possible case of avian influenza in a child with mild respiratory symptoms on Tuesday, but said there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of ...

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

California's public health department reported a possible case of bird flu in a child with mild respiratory symptoms on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The H5N1 virus that infected a Canadian teen appears not to have spread, but it shows signs of mutation that makes flu ...

As H5N1 bird flu spreads among California dairy herds and southward-migrating birds, health officials announced Friday six ...

Poultry on a commercial farm in England have been infected with the bird flu virus, the U.K. government said Sunday. The H5N1 virus was found in kept birds in St. Ives, a seaside town in Cornwall. All ...

A teenager in British Columbia has become the first person in Canada to test positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu. Health ...

People have been hearing a lot about H5N1 bird flu — or highly pathogenic avian influenza — since a B.C. teen became the ...