A child in San Francisco who had red eyes and a fever had a probable case of H5N1 bird flu, according to the city’s ...
California State Veterinarian Dr. Annette Jones has issued a statewide ban on dairy cattle and poultry exhibitions to combat ...
The U.S. has developed a bird flu vaccine that can be prepared when needed. It’s not currently available because health ...
Not only could it affect our collective health if mishandled, but ecosystems may suffer from the loss of animal life.
With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...
The Central Valley is home to many of California's most vulnerable groups to bird flu: agricultural workers. It's also where ...
The case in Louisiana is the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. during this current outbreak, but there was a death ...
Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...
While highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been confirmed in 923 dairy herds in 16 states, California has been hit the ...
A Louisiana resident infected by H5N1 bird flu has died, state authorities there reported Monday, marking the first U.S.
But, fatalities are not uncommon with H5N1 infections overall. According to data collected by the WHO, there have been 954 documented cases between 2003 and 2024. Of those, 464 were fatal, leading to ...
A wastewater sample from the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission tested positive for H5 bird flu this week, according to WastewaterSCAN, a monitoring program based at Stanford University.