An expert says the cases of avian influenza detected so far among workers doesn't warrant making a vaccine yet.

"The only reason that we are not vaccinating poultry against bird flu is because the chicken companies don't want to," deCoriolis said. "Industrial meat companies rely on export markets for their ...

Medical experts advise that people should get a vaccine for the bird flu when it becomes commercially available. One doctor ...

PHAC has increased its risk assessment for avian flu, saying, while the risk remains low for the general public, the ...

The U.S. will rebuild its stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry matched to the current strain of the virus circulating ...

The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...

The CDC advises testing hospitalized flu patients for bird flu within 24 hours to prevent delays in identifying human ...

Health officials say they have found highly pathogenic avian influenza in birds at two poultry operations in Ottawa County, and both will be "depopulated" to prevent the spread of the virus.

More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu, data from the U.S. Department of ...

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

The bird flu, also known as avian influenza and H5N1, was implicated in the first human death from the infectious disease on ...

Why the results surprised anyone is itself a surprise. After the state of California began testing dairy herds for highly ...