Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, commissioner of public health for the city of Boston, wrote in a statement to The Daily Free Press that although bird flu rarely affects humans, those who handle birds are at ...

People who work with animals are at higher risk, Mark Levine said Tuesday, and the state is keeping an eye out for a “nightmare scenario.” ...

A new variant of the bird flu has infected a dairy worker in Nevada marking the state's first human case of the H5N1 avian influenza.

Michigan DNR investigates bird flu outbreak, over 300 waterfowl deaths reported. Public urged to report die-offs, take precautions.

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

H5N1 bird flu is branching out. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that a second type of ...

Doctors in New York are being urged to test hospitalized patients for bird flu amid growing concerns over human-to-human ...

Most of Trump’s health picks are uninterested in using most of the tools that can limit the spread of infectious disease.

An American Curl cat digs its claws into a scratching post. A small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from ...