The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

In today’s Health Alert, a ban on relocating birds in Michigan due to the bird flu outbreak is raising concerns about Swimmer ...

New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire 100,000-bird flock in January. The first wave of more than 900 young ...

Bird flu devastated this duck farm — now it’s making a comeback - Doug Corwin worries he won't be able to weather another ...

In Michigan, pediatric flu deaths have fluctuated since the 2010-11 season. There have been lows of zero deaths in 2011-12 and one death in 2015-16 to seven deaths in 2012-13 and eight deaths each ...

For example, the flu shot coverage for ages 6 months to 17 years old in Michigan was just 16.3 percent this past season. That’s a big drop from the 31-point-2 percent coverage in the 2020 to ...

H5N1 bird flu is capable of spreading through the air, a new animal study from the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has found. H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with ...