Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the western province of British ...

It is unclear whether there will also be testing in larger cities. ...

New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to ...

Every year thousands of people get their flu vaccine, but this this year it’s a little different. In the past the vaccine ...

A new study revealed more farmworkers had signs of infection, even though they reportedly did not display symptoms of illness.

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (NEWS 15) — Flu season is officially here. The history of the influenza virus can teach us modern lessons ...

New research has revealed that even asymptomatic people carry the avian flu virus, suggesting that infections among dairy workers may be more common that presumed — and underscoring the need ...

Health officials have detected highly pathogenic avian influenza in a flock of commercial turkeys in Sacramento County, the ...

Flu vaccines given through a shot are made with either inactivated viruses or with only a single protein from the flu virus, so they cannot cause you to get the flu. The nasal spray vaccine contains ...

Britain increased the risk level of bird flu from medium to high after two different strains of the virus, H5N5 and H5N1, were detected in wild birds in the country over the autumn, according to a ...