An expert says the cases of avian influenza detected so far among workers doesn't warrant making a vaccine yet.
Nationally, this avian flu sickened at least 66 people in 2024, mostly dairy farmworkers who came in contact with diseased ...
Medical experts advise that people should get a vaccine for the bird flu when it becomes commercially available. One doctor ...
vaccines offer great potential to mitigate a future pandemic. Influenza A(H5N1) is classified as a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus that predominately affects wild birds and poultry.
"The only reason that we are not vaccinating poultry against bird flu is because the chicken companies don't want to," deCoriolis said. "Industrial meat companies rely on export markets for their ...
PHAC has increased its risk assessment for avian flu, saying, while the risk remains low for the general public, the ...
The U.S. will rebuild its stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry matched to the current strain of the virus circulating ...
Health officials say they have found highly pathogenic avian influenza in birds at two poultry operations in Ottawa County, and both will be "depopulated" to prevent the spread of the virus.
The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...
With several poultry farms in Ontario under quarantine due to avian flu outbreaks recently, residents in Ontario may be wondering if it’s safe to eat eggs and chicken. As of Jan. 8, as many as 138,000 ...
Due to ongoing sporadic H5N1 avian flu infections and brisk levels of seasonal flu activity, the US Centers for Disease ...