The risk to the public remained low, but people in close contact with dairy cattle may be at an increased risk, the state ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

The U.S’s biggest dairy-producing state is being squeezed by the recent outbreak of bird flu, which also affects cattle—and ...

The Health and Human Services Department under Kennedy took unprecedented steps to change how vaccines are evaluated, ...

Though the health and human services secretary has been avid fan of raw milk, he hasn’t pushed for changes to federal ...

Bird flu ripping through California dairy farms The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now working with California on a project that is offering gift cards to encourage people to get ...

Corresponding CDC documents summarizing the cat study and another as-yet unpublished bird flu analysis said the reports were scheduled to be published Jan. 23. These were reviewed by KFF Health News.

Flu has been brutal this season. The CDC estimates at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths from the flu since the start of October. At the same time, the bird ...

Corresponding CDC documents summarizing the cat study and another as-yet unpublished bird flu analysis said the reports were scheduled to be published Jan. 23. These were reviewed by KFF Health News.

Scientists found that a pet cat in San Mateo County died of complications related to H5N1 bird flu. The virus was also discovered in a backyard poultry flock in Redwood City. Meanwhile, the CDC ...

Swartzberg said since 2003, there have been 954 confirmed cases of the bird flu strain currently infecting humans, and about half of those people have died. That would put the historical mortality ...