With two cases of bird flu having been confirmed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, local health officials are issuing advisories and at least one Franklin County farm is taking ...

Some areas of Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Clay Township may close during prime snow geese viewing season this ...

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

A number of bird flu cases have been reported in the Chicago area in recent weeks, leading to many questions about how quickly the virus is spreading and how worried residents should be.

"This is about the time of year when we would expect to see an increase in COVID, flu, RSV, and also norovirus," said Robbie Goldstein, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

The ongoing avian influenza outbreak in wild birds and domestic poultry flocks is prompting the health board to consider emergency measures if it mutates to be more transmissible in humans.

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers wrote.

This funding, announced Friday by Moderna, builds on the $176 million it received from HHS last year to support earlier stages of vaccine research.

Seven Delmarva-region commercial operations have now reported cases of the highly contagious virus.

For the first time since the 2022 countrywide outbreak, bird flu hit a poultry producer in Georgia, the nation’s top state ...

Georgia is the nation's largest poultry producing state. Last week, bird flu was found for the first time in a commercial ...

As bird flu swept through Europe in 2023, the U.S. enacted import bans. In October 2023, France became the first major ...