If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

The Health and Human Services Department under Kennedy took unprecedented steps to change how vaccines are evaluated, ...

The health sector makes headlines with global reactions to bird flu impacting chicken exports and the ongoing narrative of ...

Before his confirmation, the HHS secretary said he’d leave the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices alone. Now he’s doing the opposite.

There have been 70 reported human cases of the bird flu in the U.S., with one confirmed death, according to the CDC. Bird flu cases in Louisiana ...

Blood testing of large-animal veterinarians suggests that H5N1 bird flu has spread more widely than US surveillance of the virus is capturing, according to a new study by federal and state disease ...

The Louisiana patient was sickened by the D1.1 strain of the bird flu virus, genetic sequencing by the CDC determined last month. The patient's virus did have some rare and potentially worrying ...

Earlier this month, a Louisiana man became the first person in the United States to die of bird flu. A severe infection nearly killed a Canadian girl who was hospitalized for two months.

The U.S. reported its first human death from H5N1 bird flu, marking a significant milestone in the outbreak. The patient was over 65 with underlying health conditions and was hospitalized in Louisiana ...

Jan. 7, 2025 – A person in Louisiana exposed to bird flu by a backyard flock has died. This marks the first U.S. human death linked to H5N1 avian flu, which has increasingly been detected in ...

So far, 66 human cases of bird flu have been reported in the U.S., according to the CDC. Ten states have been linked with the bird flu — California, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri ...

The Louisiana patient was infected with the D1.1 clade of the bird flu virus, a strain that is circulating in wild birds and poultry. It’s different from the variant that’s circulating in ...