State health officials are investigating possible sources of the H5 avian influenza virus detected for the first time in a wastewater sample from Oahu, but reassure residents that public risk remains ...

Symptoms of avian influenza may include fever, cough, sore throat and conjunctivitis. Antiviral flu treatment is recommended ...

A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren't sure how ...

Still, officials said, the overall risk to Oahu and Hawaii residents remains low as there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission of H5N1 in the United States. The U.S. Centers for ...

CDC is calling for expanded testing of dairy farm employees after a recent study showed possible H5N1 bird flu infections among workers who ..

Although finding H5N1 across several cities’ wastewater samples has serious ... The hope is that, if human transmission is ...

A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.

H5N1 spreads among birds and mammals and cases in people stem from those who have worked closely with infected animals. There is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission of H5N1 in the ...

The Centers for Disease Control recommends wearing protective personal equipment, known as PPEs, when working with birds, ...

Hawaiʻi DOH found H5 avian flu in an Oʻahu wastewater sample, the first such detection in the state, prompting further ...

Health Canada has authorized three influenza vaccines that could be used if bird flu became a pandemic, the agency says.