The woman had a backyard flock of chickens that got sick and died, a CDC spokesperson said Saturday. The state health ...

Bird flu infects many species, including wild animals, according to the United Nations. Ducks, quail and at least one eagle ...

The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional license for an avian flu vaccine for use in chickens, as an ...

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading ...

Outpatient health care visits for flu-like illnesses are at their highest levels in 15 years, according to data updated ...

With so much H5N1 circulating in the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic.

Greg Herbruck, CEO of a Michigan egg production company, said bird flu hit all of the company's farms around last Easter. Production still has not returned to normal levels.

Swine Flu' Strain Has Passed from Humans to Swine Nearly 400 Times Since 2009 July 27, 2023 — A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic -- pdm09 -- shows ...

This continues to be the highest level seen since at least 2009, during the swine flu pandemic. MORE: Doctors' visits for flu highest in 15 years, most since swine flu pandemic: CDC During the ...

Last week, that number was clearly higher than the peak of any winter flu season since 2009-2010, when a swine flu pandemic hit the nation, according to data posted Friday morning by the Centers ...

All four flu pandemics — in 1918, 1957 and 1968 and the swine flu pandemic of 2009 — were caused by Type A viruses. Influenza B viruses, however, only circulate in humans. They are divided ...