confirmed another human H5N1 avian flu case -- otherwise known as bird flu -- in California on Thursday, bringing the nationwide total of cases to 67. California has been hit hardest, accounting ...

Although there is no human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the US and the risk to the general public remains low, there’s a lot of H5N1 virus circulating in animals, as well as usual ...

There have only been 67 human cases of bird flu. Most cases in people have been mild. Just one person, an older adult with underlying health conditions, has died. Nearly all cases have been linked ...

The advisory is intended to prevent delays in identifying human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses amid high levels of seasonal influenza. The risk to the general public from bird flu is ...

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on January 3 that it’s awarding more than $300 million for bird flu monitoring and preparedness. Even though Rasmussen ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

Dr. Klein said fortunately no dogs have been affected, and while there has been close to 70 human bird flu cases nationwide, none have come from human to human contact. "We haven't hit the red ...

SAN ANTONIO (Jan. 15, 2025) -- One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable it to more easily replicate in human ...

However, if bird flu continues to circulate in large numbers of animals and keeps transmitting to humans, the conditions necessary for human-to-human transmission may become unavoidable.

However, the conditions required for human-to-human transmission may be inevitable if the "continued circulation" of bird flu in large numbers of animals and the "continued transmission" to humans ...

Since bird flu began spreading in the US, one question has been puzzling scientists: why are the farm workers who are catching it only suffering mild illness? Of the 66 people infected in America ...