The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

The Department of Health and Human Services Jan. 3 announced it is awarding approximately $306 million to support the federal ...

A person in Louisiana who was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu has died. The hospitalization, first announced Dec.

The Connecticut Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1, commonly known as ...

H5N1 - has led to the first known casualty. While there is no known cure, the CDC does recommend methods to protect yourself.

$11 million will go to the NIH, where it will be used to fund research into medical treatments and prevention for H5N1 bird flu. "Preparedness is the key to keeping Americans healthy and our ...

A CHILD tested positive for H5N1 bird flu after experiencing conjunctivitis, health officials have confirmed. The patient, from San Francisco, California, also had a fever and tested positive for ...

But, fatalities are not uncommon with H5N1 infections overall. According to data collected by the WHO, there have been 954 documented cases between 2003 and 2024. Of those, 464 were fatal, leading to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that no person-to-person transmission has been identified. As of Jan. 7, ...

Shikha Garg, MD, from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues analyzed data from persons with laboratory-confirmed A(H5N1) virus infection to describe the ...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention disclosed that a person ... how to protect yourself and what to do if you are exposed to H5N1 virus. Bird flu, also know as H5N1 or avian influenza ...

"This patient remains the only human case of H5N1 in Louisiana ... the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that the virus that sickened the Louisiana patient matched a strain ...