The CDC has confirmed 65 cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans in 2024. Of those, 39 were associated with dairy herds and 23 with ...

Bird flu could be mutating to become more transmissible to humans, scientists have warned, as the US reported its first ...

The ongoing spread of bird flu in the United States has alarmed experts — not just because of human cases causing severe illness, but also due to troubling new instances of infections in cats. A ...

Did you ever wonder why California is always in an emergency? Bird flu is the latest one. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a declaration of emergency on Dec. 18 after a severe case in a human was documented.

California is known for its residents' healthy lifestyles, but what does that mean for heart disease mortality risk if you ...

New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) shows that over half of U.S. states have either "high" or "very high" levels of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—in ...

A severe case of bird flu in Louisiana has led to the discovery of mutations in the H5N1 virus, which may help it bind more ...

America is heading into an even higher-risk period as the seasonal flu begins to circulate. This also raises a question of ...

A Northern Kentucky resident has died after being exposed to rabies, the Kentucky Department of Public Health said Friday.

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...

The CDC said Thursday its analysis of samples from a Louisiana patient with bird flu showed mutations not seen in samples ...

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Newsweek's live blog is closed.