Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

Viral hepatitis is a major danger to public health. According to WHO’s 2024 Global Hepatitis Report, viral hepatitis deaths ...

Avian influenza, H5N1 or bird flu is a virus that is spreading throughout the United States. While the risk to the public remains low at ...

Through the week of Jan. 29, 19 states are reported "high" respiratory virus activity: Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, ...

Increased use of ventilation and air cleaners, designed to mitigate the spread of viral infections in hospitals, is likely to have unpredictable effects and may cause viral particles to move around ...

On the fifth anniversary of the U.S. declaring a public health emergency over COVID-19, people continue to lose their lives.

The CDC said the virus spreads in two main ways: either directly from infected birds through saliva or feces, or from another ...

These diseases had once been extraordinary rarities. When HIV hit, they were everywhere. I remember how I blew up gloves into balloons to distract the kids, so small and polite, their hair neatly ...

When bird flu first struck dairy cattle in Texas last year, it was unclear how the virus might spread. As of now, H5N1 has ...

Across the country, dairy producers have dumped milk and infected chickens have been killed, including millions of egg-laying ...

A team of chemists and microbiologists at Michigan State University has found that an all-optical method can be used to ...