Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...

California public health officials are dipping into state and federal stockpiles to equip up to 10,000 farmworkers with masks ...

Health officials were struggling to answer a broader and potentially worrisome question: how the infection occurred.

Public health officials are recommending wider testing and more aggressive use of flu antiviral medicine for workers who might be exposed to bird flu at poultry and dairy farms. The Centers for ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating its recommendations for testing, treatment and protection for workers who may be exposed to animals infected with bird flu.

Dairy workers who’ve been exposed to bird flu should be tested for the virus even if they don’t have symptoms and be offered Tamiflu to cut their risk of getting sick, the Centers for Disease ...

Internal emails reveal Michigan health officials suspected that owners may have inadvertently spread bird flu to their household cats, raising new concerns about transmission patterns of the virus.

Food Theft' Among Seabirds Could Be Transmission Point for Deadly Avian Flu Sep. 16, 2024 — If seabirds can catch avian flu by stealing food from infectious birds, it gives scientists a clue ...

A new CDC study suggests that cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans working with dairy cows may be ... [+] significantly under-reported. A new CDC report has revealed that 7% of dairy workers tested ...

Federal health officials on Thursday called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed that some dairy workers had signs of infection, even when they didn't ...

The detection of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) in a pig on an Oregon farm has again raised concerns specifically among virologists who monitor infectious diseases. Although this might seem ...

A pig was infected with bird flu in Oregon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday. It’s the first time bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus, infected a pig in the United States ...