HPAI has had the greatest impact on pullets and egg-laying poultry, where bird housing density is higher, said Dr. Lisa ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA technology, which is used in the ...

The federal government should be investing and working to expand the nation’s scientific and public health arsenal, not ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in funding pledged to Moderna to help the company develop, test and license mRNA-based vaccines to ...

Federal and state authorities have confirmed a case of a highly pathogenic avian influenza ... a man from Louisiana who was over 65 and had underlying health issues. Most human infections have ...

The patient in Louisiana was infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which is a virus that can infect both birds and mammals. The virus in this particular patient revealed genetic ...

Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death was recorded in Louisiana ... the virus and current situation. Bird flu, or avian influenza, is an infectious viral disease ...

Detections of H5N1 avian influenza have slowed in both animals ... and there was one death -- a patient in Louisiana who had been exposed to sick birds in a backyard flock. Among animals, more ...