Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

After staff and funding cuts across the HHS, the FDA has suspended its quality control program for testing dairy products.

There have been 6,600 pertussis cases reported in the US in 2025, almost four times the number at this point last year.

A person who died of the bird flu in Louisiana in December illustrates that point: Scientific evidence suggests that bird flu viruses evolved inside the patient, gaining mutations that may make ...

There was one death linked to a human infected with bird flu in Louisiana. An H5N1 avian influenza virus molecule. Ruslanas Baranauskas/Corona Borealis via Adobe Stock ABC News' medical ...

Nationwide, there have been 70 confirmed human cases of bird flu since 2024, and one person from Louisiana died, according to the CDC. The majority of the 70 cases involved people working with ...

About 70 people have been sickened by bird flu, mainly poultry and dairy workers, CDC data shows. In January, a person in Louisiana became the first person to die from bird flu in the U.S ...

A Louisiana resident died earlier this year after being hospitalized with bird flu. The patient was over 65 years old and was reported to have "underlying medical conditions." The patient ...

The flu has affected humankind for millennia ... with only one fatality — an elderly man in Louisiana with underlying medical conditions who had contact with a backyard flock and wild birds.

Bird flu's risk to the public remains low, health officials say, but fatalities have been recorded. One person in Louisiana died after being hospitalized with the virus, marking the first bird ...