The U.S. is experiencing its most intense flu season in 15 years, with 24 million infections, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths. Flu is surging nationwide, impacting schools and straining ...

It's an unusual winter for respiratory illnesses. The flu is peaking twice: once in early January and again in February.

NEW YORK — The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years.

A total of seven cases of avian influenza were discovered during routine inspections of live bird markets at Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Out of an abundance of caution, the governor said she has ...

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New York state is shuttering all live bird markets in New York City, and Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties, following ...

California’s Head Start Programs Thrown Into Chaos: Dozens of Head Start programs nationwide — including at least six in California — have experienced delays in accessing government money for payroll ...

The theme of Seth Meyers' Thursday A Closer Look was essentially that the only good news is how ineptly the bad news is being implemented.

REDWOOD CITY — A stray cat in San Mateo County recently tested positive for bird flu, officials said Thursday. The case is ...

A branch of the H5N1 bird flu family tree that hadn't previously been seen in cattle has now been detected in dairy cows.

U.S. dairy cattle tested positive for a strain of bird flu that previously had not been seen in cows, the U.S. Department of ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo has closed its aviary for the "foreseeable future" in an attempt to protect its birds from the bird ...