The Department of Public Health and Social Services encourages proactive approach to protect oneself and others from health ...

The fatal disease was first found in Cambodia in December 2003 and initially only affected wild birds. Since then, the diseases has spread to humans in counties across the world, including in the US ...

Scientists have known for more than a year that bird flu, H5N1, made the jump from wild birds and common poultry to cows and ...

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Decades of research show the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal is safe in vaccines, but CDC's new advisory panel is ...

GSK plc has announced the start of shipments for its trivalent seasonal influenza vaccines, FLULAVAL and FLUARIX, to ...

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

If I have sounded like a broken record these past months, it is because these developments in American public health are as ...