The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

CDC officials said they opted to upgrade the advisory after seeing more patients whose illness cannot be traced back to an infected animal or bird. "That's a newer finding in the history of H5 - not ...

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek (Reuters) -People hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the ...

A child ill with fever and conjunctivitis in San Francisco tested positive for bird flu but had no known source of transmission.

Doctors should use infection control measures if a hospitalized patient has suspected, probable, or confirmed H5N1, putting ...

President Joe Biden's outgoing administration on Thursday announced $211 million in new funding to develop mRNA vaccines ...

New research highlights concerns about sleep aids disrupting the brain's cleaning process and their long-term effects on ...

Following a World Health Organization (WHO) alert 2 days ago about a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania, the ...

There’s a virus making the rounds in South Carolina and there’s no vaccine to fight it. Here’s how to protect yourself, experts say.

Avian influenza, or bird flu, was detected in wild birds in Packer Township earlier this month. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the two reports came from the same Carbon County ...

The FDA has proposed cutting nicotine levels in cigarettes to non-addictive levels, aiming to curb smoking addiction and ...

An elk found dead on the Scab Creek Feedground in Elk Hunt Area 98 in Wyoming at the end of December has tested positive for ...