Today's health news includes theories about the mildness of the H5N1 outbreak and the best and worst restaurant policies on ...

New Zealand has halted all poultry exports after confirming its first case of bird flu on an egg farm in the southern region ...

The general public health threat remains low, but some infectious disease experts worry about a thinning line that's kept ...

If you have pets, keep them away from feeders and clean up bird droppings underneath. Don’t let them handle dead birds.

As bird flu cases rise, the Los Angeles Times reports that workers at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory say they are overworked and feeling burned out. Also in public health news ...

The recent appearance of the H5N1 bird flu in pigs does raise viral reassortment concerns. Here's what we know about this ...

Tests confirmed the H7N6 subtype of bird flu at a rural chicken farm in the Otago region, Biosecurity New Zealand said in a statement. It is different to the H5N1 strain that has spread globally and ...

You may have encountered the term “ bird flu” increasingly online and in the media. It refers to a highly pathogenic avian ...

The sluggish federal response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could become even more disjointed and ineffective in the second ...

The H5N1 bird flu outbreak in the U.S. has so far been shockingly mild. Researchers have some theories as to why.

ALMOST five years after Covid blew into our lives, the main thing standing between us and the next global pandemic is luck.

The government is confident its teams will be able eradicate the high pathogenic avian influenza or bird flu, which has been ...