Both state and federal health officials stressed that the risk of the general public contracting bird flu is low.

Cows don’t typically get the flu. The recent H5N1 flu outbreak in U.S. dairy herds is a wake-up call, not just about the ...

For the past week, STAT’s Helen Branswell has been tracking what we know about a child in California with a possible case of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom President-elect Donald Trump has said he will nominate to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has asserted that raw milk “advances human health,” contrary to ...

If recreating outdoors in areas with large concentrations of waterfowl and other waterbirds, wash clothing and disinfect ...

Investigators trying to determine how a child in California might have contracted bird flu are continuing to learn more ...

Avian Influenza H5N1 is again circulating in susceptible wild birds in California during fall migration. California sits at the epicenter of the Pacific Flyway, one of North America’s major migratory ...

As an outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows continues, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday that the strain of bird flu ...

A child who is believed to be infected with H5N1 may have caught the virus from drinking raw milk, health officials said on ...

The patient experienced fever and vomiting after drinking raw milk and has since recovered, according to an announcement by ...

After drinking the unpasteurized raw milk, the child experienced fever and vomiting, local health officials said.

Faced with rising cases of bird flu being detected in raw milk, the USDA announced mandated testing for the virus in milk nationwide.