Symptoms of avian influenza may include fever, cough, sore throat and conjunctivitis. Antiviral flu treatment is recommended ...

Some rural Kansas counties are offering free flu vaccines targeting farm workers amid an ongoing nationwide bird flu outbreak ...

An egg farm in B.C. fell victim to an outbreak of avian influenza earlier this month, leaving the farmer no choice but to ...

Wastewater in several Californian cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, recently tested positive for bird flu. But ...

A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren't sure how ...

The Hawaii Department of Health said the specimen was collected last Thursday, and that it received the result on Tuesday, but that it will not be able to determine whether it is specifically the ...

There have been dozens of confirmed human cases of bird flu in the U.S. this year. Experts discuss the symptoms, risks and ...

Amid confirmation that a B.C. teen hospitalized last week is the first person to acquire H5N1 avian flu in Canada, health ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection – among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

Their goal was to detect infectious disease outbreaks early, and recent upticks in avian influenza (H5N1) cases beyond bird ...

A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.

The specimen was collected on Nov. 7, 2024 and DOH received the result on Nov. 12. The type of H5 avian influenza was H5N1, also called Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). An investigation was ...