Nearly two dozen U.S. senators urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a letter, to "prioritize" a vaccine strategy for ...

The birds lingered for days at a Catholic school near Cincinnati as agencies haggled over who was responsible for removing ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus—commonly known as bird flu—has been causing outbreaks in dairy cows in the United States since ...

The U.S. is seeing a post-Thanksgiving spike in influenza, data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on ...

New research reveals why bird flu poses such an unusual danger to humans: it can keep multiplying even at temperatures that normally shut viruses down.

Dozens of dead vultures that were likely infected with bird flu were found on the grounds of an Ohio school recently. The 72 ...

In today’s Health Alert, flu season is officially underway, with doctor visits for fever and cough climbing fast.  A new flu variant is now the dominant strain.

After the virus returned to Hawaii this fall, testing the shots in the endangered seal species became urgent. After the virus returned to Hawaii this fall, testing the shots in the endangered seal ...

A Washington state man is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu, but state health officials said Friday the risk to the public is low. The man, an older adult with ...

In New York alone, there have already been more than 17,000 flu cases and nearly 1,000 hospitalizations, and doctors ...

The flu can also cause a general feeling of fatigue or malaise, Ray says, as well as gastrointestinal issues like diarrhea ...