Influenza C doesn’t cause severe symptoms and it’s not seasonal—the number of cases stays about the same throughout the year. H1N1 swine flu and H1N5 bird flu are both subtypes of influenza A.

Avian influenza A (H5N1) has mutated, so the symptoms of bird flu could change as more people get sick in 2025.

Bird flu has been detected in a Georgia commercial poultry flock for the first time since a countrywide outbreak in 2022.

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

A California child was recently confirmed as the third human case of bird flu with a known source of infection. What could this mean in our fight against the disease?

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with a bird flu virus known as H5N1 in December has passed away from the ...

There is still a danger, however: a person in Louisiana recently became the first person in the country to die from H5N1. Louisiana health officials said the patient was over the age of 65 and had ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the same influenza virus -- in dairy cattle have ... Dec. 17, 2024 — Despite national medical guidelines ...

The H5N1 bird flu, or highly pathogenic avian influenza, has been detected in a backyard flock in Vermont, according to state agriculture officials. Bird flu is generally low-risk to humans ...