We spoke with Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, about the agency’s avian flu response.

Recent health developments include Rwanda's declining Marburg cases amidst rising mpox, legal actions in Texas against ...

Officials are racing to vaccinate dairy workers against the seasonal flu to prevent the two viruses from combining.

Concerns about bird flu — officially known as avian influenza A (H5) — continue to mount, particularly in California. Infectious disease experts voice their concerns and recommend precautions.

The outbreak is Michigan's first since early September. Meanwhile, the USDA confirmed three earlier H5N1 detections in ...

Today's health news includes a STAT investigation into UnitedHealth's pressure on doctors and whether it's time to panic ...

As California continues to proactively test symptomatic individuals for bird flu, the California Department of Public Health ...

The five possible human cases are pending confirmatory testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Due to shipping delays late last week, and today’s federal holiday, the possible ...

CSL Seqirus, a global vaccine maker with a massive manufacturing plant in Holly Springs, has received two federal grants ...

"We have the potential of people becoming infected through consumption of unpasteurized milk, cheese or other dairy products,” he explained. This risk is compounded by the virus's ability to adapt and ...

As a rapidly increasing number of California dairy farms suffer outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu, industry experts say it remains ...