The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in the H5N1 bird flu virus that may increase ...

The patient is in Louisiana and was exposed to backyard flocks sick with H5N1. According to information from the CDC, infected birds spread bird flu through their spit, snot and poop. Other ...

Yet, despite H5N1’s high fatality of 52% since 2003, there have been no deaths so far. While 63 cases in the U.S. have been mild, on December 18, the CDC reported that a patient in Louisiana had ...

(WTVA) — Poultry in south Mississippi tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu, the Mississippi Department of ... According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the public health ...

The case was identified through testing at Iowa’s State Hygienic Laboratory and was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new case pushes ... Over the past several ...

The CDC conducts random surprise sanitary inspections on cruise ships, scoring the ship on a scale from zero to 100. The review looks at common spaces such as pools and activity centers ...

Last year, life expectancy at birth was 78.4 years for the total U.S. population, an increase from 77.5 in 2022, the CDC report said. For men, life expectancy increased by a year from 74.8 in 2022 ...

In 2024, the CDC reported 13 bacterial and viral outbreaks on ships. Most incidents were of norovirus, a highly contagious bug that quickly spreads through tainted food, water, surfaces ...

Every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releases their Vessell Sanitation Program list to help “the cruise industry prevent and control public health issues” with ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – On Monday, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department confirmed two cases of H5N1 bird flu in two domesticated cats in the county. The source of the ...

Digitally-colourised, negative-stained transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicting influenza A virions A single mutation in the H5N1 strain of avian influenza that is infecting cattle ...

(The Hill) Iowa has its first confirmed case of H5N1 bird flu in a poultry farm worker, the state's public health department announced. Meanwhile, the swift spread of H5NI1 in California dairy ...