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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s newly appointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) upheld ...

A 25-year-old local scientist captured rare footage showing how one of the world’s deadliest viruses could jump from bats to humans.

Pet owners are being urged by the RSPCA to follow avian influenza guidelines to help prevent the spread of bird flu.

Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been around since the 1990s, but this current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, ...

Arisbeth Muñoz is raising money for prosthetics so she can “be present’ for her two sons after a devastating illness that ...

As climate-driven weather extremes fuel fires across the U.S. West, the tendency of residents to spend more time indoors may be accelerating the spread of infectious diseases, a new study has ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

Concerns have been raised following the confirmation of two separate avian influenza cases in Wales. The first was confirmed ...

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