The US The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the country's first H5N1 bird flu infection in a child.

The warning came five days after the CDC confirmed that a child had tested positive for bird flu in California.

A child in California caught bird flu amid a recall of raw milk in the state, but investigations have found no evidence that the case was caused by raw milk.

A rare case of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been confirmed in a child in the United States, according to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first child in the United States contracted avian influenza H5 virus infection.

As of Nov. 18, 30 people — mostly farmworkers — have been infected with bird flu after exposure to dairy cows, the CDC said in a statement. All of those infected had mild symptoms, with many ...

In an early November announcement about the ongoing outbreak, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said that while ... Symptoms of bird flu in humans have previously ranged from eye redness ...

Other subtypes of bird flu like H5N1 have spread to humans ... according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All told, there have been around 900 human cases reported since ...

The CDC released updated guidelines Nov. 8 that recommend offering testing to asymptomatic workers who have been exposed to animals infected with bird flu, including workers who were not wearing ...

Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause ...

H5N1 bird flu update: Stories include the risk of avian flu transmission to humans, what would be needed for wide availability of a H5N1 vaccine, the perils of bird flu virus in raw milk ...

The CDC recommends that people in this age group, who are more likely to get really sick if they get the flu, receive different shots that are more effective at preventing severe disease.