Human bird flu has hospitalized a Canadian teenager at British Columbia Children’s Hospital. He is the first person in Canada ...

Alaska voters seem poised to pass a similar measure that has a wide lead. These two Republican-led states join 15 others ...

The new guidance comes after blood tests for 115 farmworkers in Michigan and Colorado showed that eight workers had ...

In other news: a Kansas prisoner sues over health care; the FDA warns against contaminated compounded weight loss drugs; bird flu; tuberculosis; and more.

The operation, dubbed Cold Meat 2, launched last week. It tracked 18,000 head of cattle raised in 100 square miles (260 ...

H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the ...

A second person in Missouri who wasn't exposed to either poultry or dairy cows has been infected with bird flu.

Pigs can be infected with human and avian flu, upping chances for the virus to evolve and become more infectious ...

But finding bird flu in a pig raises worries that the virus may be hitting a stepping stone to ... So far this year, nearly ...

In fact, the 2009 swine flu pandemic is believed to have been sparked by a virus that mutated in pigs in Mexico before it jumped to people. Health officials also reported recently that a second person ...

This version of bird flu — known as Type A H5N1 — has been spreading widely in the U.S. among ... So far this year, 36 human cases have been reported — 16 in California, 10 in Colorado, six in ...