San Mateo County public health officials reported finding H5N1 bird flu in a pet cat and a backyard poultry flock.

The discovery of bird flu in the San Mateo backyard flock prompted health officials to remind people to take biosecurity ...

FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists are calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

As bird flu spread among animals soars in the United States, hospitals are being told to proactively screen for potential human cases in influenza A patients.

As California's Central Valley makes headlines for the growing number of people testing positive for the bird flu from exposure to dairy cows, Rais Vohra, MD, professor at UC San Francisco, Fresno and ...

California’s Head Start Programs Thrown Into Chaos: Dozens of Head Start programs nationwide — including at least six in California — have experienced delays in accessing government money for payroll ...

On Friday, a group of over 30 sitting U.S. Senators penned a letter to Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Dorothy ...

Yahoo News provides the latest updates on the spread of bird flu in the U.S., and its effect on rising egg prices and shortages.

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

The CDC allegedly posted and swiftly deleted data suggesting bird flu could spread from cats to people in a table included in Wednesday's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

All live poultry markets in New York City and some of its suburbs were ordered Friday to close for a week after the detection ...

Five cases of bird flu spreading through commercial poultry flocks in Pennsylvania caused the loss of more than 2 million ...