The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday confirmed highly pathogenic form of bird flu in a person ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that an unnamed individual in Oregon contracted bird flu ...

Bird flu (H5N1) has been spreading across the country, among both animals and people, since April of this year. As the ...

The CDC's updated recommendations are based, in part, on the study of 115 dairy workers in Colorado and Michigan. Blood tests ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating its recommendations for testing, treatment and protection ...

Federal officials said Thursday that farmworkers exposed to bird flu should be tested for the virus even if they are not ...

The health agency now urges proactive testing and treatment for the virus among any workers who were exposed to H5N1.

Following a CDC study showing bird flu exposure among dairy workers, health officials recommend increased testing and ...

The Oregon Health Authority said there's no evidence of person-to-person transmission and the risk to the public is low.

So far, there have been 52 confirmed cases of avian influenza, commonly referred to as the "bird flu," in humans in 2024. Two of the infected patients have been in Missouri.

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be ...

Informed by a new study, the CDC recommends testing dairy and poultry farmworkers exposed to H5N1-infected animals even if ...