Scott Gottlieb and Luciana Borio, a former director for medical and biodefense preparedness policy at the National Security ...

Respiratory illnesses are on the rise around the state. Mark Rupp, chief of Division of Infectious Diseases at Nebraska ...

Federal health officials over the past year, apparently chastened by accusations of sometimes inflating the risks from covid-19, have too often swung to the opposite extreme, minimizing hazards from ...

Public health officials have warned that new mutations of bird flu with human flu could have dangerous consequences.

You’ve heard it before: norovirus, sometimes called the stomach bug or stomach flu, catching families by surprise and making ...

Doctors say the case of a teen left in critical condition shows H5N1 "can cause severe human illness." Mutations in the virus are deepening concerns about the spread of H5N1.

The agency says it is looking for red flags, but the risk to the public still remains low. Meanwhile, a Louisiana patient with a severe case of bird flu showed worrying mutations in the samples ...

The FDA has begun testing cheese for bird flu as human cases of the virus continue to rise in the United States.

So far, the H5N1 virus isn't transmitted between people — but the CDC has found a mutation in a human case "concerning." ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is keeping close eye on pandemic indicators amid bird flu cases arising in the ...