“It can spread very ... epidemics.” Flu pandemics are rare, though, occurring roughly three times a century, Michael says. Perhaps the most notable is the so-called “Spanish flu” of ...

A newly released map from Newsweek ... Experts warn that if the virus evolves to spread from person to person, it could trigger a global pandemic. Since the bird flu outbreak began in 2022 ...

Health experts warn that as bird flu continues to spread among animal populations ... Indeed, research suggests many well-known global flu pandemics—including the Spanish flu that killed tens of ...

What you need to know: A second strain of H5N1 bird flu has been detected in US cattle Some experts believe that the risk to humans is low Infections have also been detected outside the US, in ...

View our continuing coverage of the global avian influenza situation. To learn more about HPAI cases in commercial poultry flocks in the United States, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on ...

More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the ...

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

The flu remains a major global health threat. According to the WHO, flu causes 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and up to 650,000 respiratory deaths each year, particularly among vulnerable ...

Maps of bird flu cases show the spread of the virus across the United States. Most people infected with bird flu in the U.S. have had mild symptoms. Symptoms of H5N1 birth flu infection in humans ...