No evidence of human transmission, but virus found in increasing number of animals World Health Organization says H5N1's risk ...

A teen in Canada may be the first person to catch an H5 bird flu virus within the country. Health officials are now working ...

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.

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The typical respiratory virus season ends on March 31, although flu cases can linger into April and some COVID-19 strains can exist during the summer. During the 2023-24 respiratory virus season ...

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 ...

Blood tests have shown that about 7 per cent of workers on dairy farms that had H5N1 outbreaks had antibodies against 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 ...

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A Texas case of H5N1 in a dairy worker revealed a virus capable of fatal transmission in ferrets, raising concerns about its ...

The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic ...