JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Kemble said Thursday that the state Department of Health is not yet able to determine whether the specimen collected last week ...

Canadian officials have announced that a teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.

A major gathering of global biosecurity experts has been told about the fight against Disease X and efforts to contain bird ...

State health officials are investigating possible sources of the H5 avian influenza virus detected for the first time in a wastewater sample from Oahu. The Hawaii Department of Health said the ...

A study reveals that the immune protein IFITM3 limits flu infection severity and mutation rates, especially from zoonotic ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

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.

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

H5N1 avian flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in hogs in the ...

Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...