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New federal rules call for testing unpasteurized milk from dairy processors and for farm owners to provide details that would help officials identify and track cases more easily. By Apoorva ...

In the lab, the authors of the study found that a single mutation in the primary protein, hemagglutinin (which is what the H in H5N1 stands for) could give it the ability to cling onto receptors ...

Infectious disease experts have called for expanded testing since the beginning of the outbreak, arguing that the virus can’t be contained until farms, veterinarians and federal regulators know ...

The World Health Organization called the current outbreak a “significant public health concern” Peter Garrard Beck / Getty Images On Nov. 24, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH ...

Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute are reporting that it would take just a single mutation in the version of bird flu that has swept through U.S. dairy herds to produce a virus adept ...

When you feel under the weather and then unexpectedly rebound the next day, it's understandable if you conclude you just went through the 24-hour flu. After all, this illness is known for being ...

Lisa Jarvis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, health care and the pharmaceutical industry. Previously, she was executive editor of Chemical & Engineering News. It’s been nearly ...

The deeper we head into flu season, the higher rates of infection grow, as a map produced by Newsweek shows the most at-risk states and cities in the United States. Rates of flu in the U.S. are ...

This year's winter surge of influenza and COVID-19 has yet to arrive for most of the country, data published this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows, with trends so far a ...