In an abundance of caution, the CDC last week advised hospitals and labs to do faster flu testing to help identify possible bird flu cases hiding in the flock of rising flu diagnoses.

The family-owned farm is the latest victim of the deadly outbreak hitting poultry, dairy herds and people across the nation.

The highly contagious virus has wreaked havoc on flocks of chickens, and Mainers are now seeing the impacts in local stores with empty or sparsely stocked egg coolers.

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

As bird flu cases in the United States have begun to surface over the past year, public health officials continue to raise ...

And CDC data collected prior to January from states including Ohio shows that norovirus has already caused nearly 500 ...

January places a premium on health and wellness. We make New Year's resolutions to follow the Mediterranean diet and become a ...

Highly infectious H5N1 virus, also known as the bird flu virus has tightened its grip on the United States. For the first ...

A Long Island farm will reportedly euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after a bird flu outbreak transpired at the eastern New ...

Federal health officials have been instructed to temporarily stop any “external communications” to the public, according to ...

The Neosho egg producer Opal Foods is destroying a flock of about 1,585,000 chickens and the Newton County Health Department is monitoring about 30 Opal Foods employees ...

W ith respiratory-disease season in full swing and a bird flu outbreak rapidly evolving, the new Trump Administration has ordered federal health agencies to secure White House approval before ...