A child in California caught bird flu amid a recall of raw milk in the state, but investigations have found no evidence that the case was caused by raw milk.

The warning came five days after the CDC confirmed that a child had tested positive for bird flu in California.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently confirmed the nation’s first avian influenza A(H5N1) human ...

A rare case of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been confirmed in a child in the United States, according to ...

H5 bird flu, a type of avian influenza, has infected dozens of people in the U.S., and spread to seven states and Canada this ...

Most human cases of bird flu have occured after close or prolonged contact with infected birds or places that harbored them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

As of Nov. 18, 30 people — mostly farmworkers — have been infected with bird flu after exposure to dairy cows, the CDC said in a statement. All of those infected had mild symptoms, with many ...

Other subtypes of bird flu like H5N1 have spread to humans ... according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All told, there have been around 900 human cases reported since ...

The CDC released updated guidelines Nov. 8 that recommend offering testing to asymptomatic workers who have been exposed to animals infected with bird flu, including workers who were not wearing ...

Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause ...

H5N1 bird flu update: Stories include the risk of avian flu transmission to humans, what would be needed for wide availability of a H5N1 vaccine, the perils of bird flu virus in raw milk ...

Linda P. Fried, dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health explains ways to cope with loneliness during the holiday season.