STAT recently spoke to Erica Pan, California’s state epidemiologist, about what public health officials are doing to monitor ...

Hungary and Italy have both reported an outbreak of the severe H5N1 avian influenza virus in the first such cases in the ...

The United States has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an ongoing outbreak of the bird flu virus H5N1 in dairy cattle.

US states had reported outbreaks of H5N1 flu in dairy cows as of October 4, 2024. That amounted to a total of 255 affected ...

Federal officials plan to double the stockpile of emergency bird flu vaccines as they identify more people infected with the ...

Both patients were dairy workers whose illnesses were mild. Investigators are continuing to evaluate the contacts of a ...

Hospital workers reported respiratory symptoms after encountering a Missouri patient with H5N1 who had not been exposed to ...

There are four types of influenza virus: A, B, C and D. Influenza A is known to infect humans and other animals, including ...

Researchers reveal how H5N1 viruses rapidly adapted to mammals through genetic reassortment and specific mutations, raising ...

The H5N1 strain first appeared in geese in 1996 and has caused bird outbreaks since then. Since 2020, a new variant of this ...

Dhillon is an instructor in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Federal agencies are studying a case of human avian influenza in which the infected person did not have contact with affected ...