Bird flu has been detected in a Georgia commercial poultry flock for the first time since a countrywide outbreak in 2022.

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...

People hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

The latest confirmation likely reflects follow-up testing of a San Francisco child whose exposure to the virus is still under investigation.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate up to 21 million people are infected with the virus each year. It ...

No. Hand sanitizer is simply not as effective against norovirus as it at killing other pathogens due to the virus's firm shell, Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt ...

CDC officials say medical professionals are seeing more patients whose illness cannot be traced back to an infected animal or ...

Flu cases are high in California with respiratory virus season in full swing. About 20% of tests for influenza came back as positive in California for the week of Dec. 29 to Jan. 4, according to the ...

To improve and streamline oversight of risky pathogen research, President-elect Donald Trump should create a new biosafety ...

The case of the Canadian teen and the death of a Louisiana man are stark reminders of bird flu’s capacity to ignite serious ...

Trump's pick for health secretary has a record of attacking vaccines. In fact he's even taken direct aim at bird flu shots.