The national spread of the disease has alarmed public health officials, who remain concerned it could spread to humans on a large scale.

As fears grow of a possible bird flu pandemic in humans, the federal government is pouring more money into the development of ...

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

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

The first U.S. death from bird flu is raising new concerns about the H5N1 virus, and whether bird flu will become the next ...

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

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 ...

Norovirus, also known as the stomach bug, is spreading across the U.S. Here's what to know about the contagious virus and how ...

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 ...

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