Research identifies gaps in healthcare facilities' readiness for infectious threats ...

Patient actors posing as people with bird-flu symptoms entered participating sites without warning during a regional preparedness test. CDC published combined results but did not ...

The detection of a deadly strain of bird flu in seals in Australia may have you wondering about the risk to humans. Although H5N1 has previously spread to mammals elsewhere in the world, the chance of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday confirmed the first case of avian influenza detected through its national influenza surveillance system. It is also the first human case the ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recorded eight new H5N1 avian flu outbreaks among commercial poultry, backyard flocks, and commercial turkey ...

The expanded protocols come after a child in California tested positive for the bird flu despite no known contact with animals. The Centers for Disease Control issued a health alert calling for the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that testing of a person with a severe case of bird flu indicated the virus had mutated when compared with samples taken from infected ...