A man has become the first person in the US to die from bird flu, but the authorities warn infections are contagious and can ...

This means when Moffitt is at the grocery store, she picks up extra gallons of water to store in case of an emergency. She ...

How deadly is the bird flu? The US has reported its first death from avian influenza, H5N1. Here's what to know about bird ...

No human cases have been reported in New York but the virus was very common among certain wild birds on Long Island in 2022 and 2023.

The nation has recorded its first fatality from the H5N1 bird flu, and while health officials say risk to the public remains low, there are still a few things to know. The U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Sam Jarvis with Johnson County Public Health said the good news: there’s so far been no human-to-human transmission of the virus known as H5N1. But they’re continuing to monitor the situation closely.

Moderna shares soared as investors placed bets that the pharmaceutical giant’s development of an H5N1 bird flu vaccine could ...

We’re monitoring the situation very, very closely. We’ve never seen this many infections of non-bird species as we have in the U.S.," Johns Hopkins virologist Andrew Pekosz said.

Robert Redfield, former CDC director, predicts bird flu would be “much more catastrophic than the COVID pandemic.” ...

A US patient who had been hospitalised with H5N1 bird flu has died, the Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday, marking the country's first reported human death from the virus, reported Reuters ...

Shares of vaccine makers including Moderna, Novavax and CureVac rose Tuesday after U.S. health officials confirmed the first ...