That’s what makes flu a life-long threat to humans and the animal species — mainly birds — that are vulnerable to it. Since 2020, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza called H5N1 ...

A patient who'd been hospitalized in Louisiana with severe illness from H5N1 bird flu has died — the first human death from this type of avian influenza in the U.S., the Louisiana Department of ...

Before 2024 closed out, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that influenza A (the flu), COVID-19 and norovirus (the stomach flu) were on the rise. The CDC also mentioned ...

The US just recorded the first death from severe bird flu. Experts say it's not too early, or unreasonable, to prepare for the worst. For decades successive waves of bird flu infections have ...

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A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator. Around the same time, a senior in Louisiana was diagnosed with the first ...

Combined infection with bird flu and human flu could lead to mutations of new viruses that could have dangerous public health consequences, agencies have warned. This is following the news that ...

When a virus is going to war on your body, a “flu bomb” might be the answer to blasting it out. So says Australian alternative health care advocate Barbara O’Neill, whose recipe has gone ...

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Flu activity levels are generally “moderate” across the state; however, Southern California is seeing a disproportionately high number of positive cases. “Now is a good time to get your flu ...