In 1978, the year that China opened up, Alain Merieux, president of the Merieux Foundation, landed in China for the first time to introduce the vaccines developed by the Merieux Institute to the ...

The health department urges the public to get the flu vaccine in anticipation of the upcoming influenza season.

The world’s first potential case of bird flu passing from mammals to humans means New Zealand is “absolutely at the point” of needing a response plan in place, a top epidemiologist says Having jumped ...

A team of Montana researchers is playing a key role in the development of a more effective vaccine against tuberculosis, an infectious disease that has killed more people than any other. The BCG ...

As the magnitude of the bird flu outbreak in cattle becomes clearer, so does the need to quickly get a firmer grip on some basic facts. Namely, how far this H5N1 virus has spread, how it is spreading, ...

You all know that part of Washington County’s beauty is its farms and that agriculture, dairy farming in particular, is its ...

The details, reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine, underscore the risk to farm workers in the ongoing outbreak among U.S. dairy cattle and the need to wear protective gear to avoid ...

Bird flu is an infectious viral illness that can spread among birds, and in rare cases, it can spread to humans. Here's what you need to know about how bird flu spreads and the preventative measures ...

Vivien Dugan, director of the flu division at the CDC, is helping to lead the national response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak ...

For the first time, a case of avian flu is hitting dairy cattle in nine states. It could be even broader, said an Arizona ...

Doctors in Texas are describing the only known human case of H5N1 avian flu connected to the ongoing outbreak of the disease ...

The animal shelter is now accepting essential intakes only, which includes sick and injured animals, and those that pose a threat to public safety.