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Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...
Clinics run by a state vendor near affected farms are giving out $25 gift cards to people who get a swab test for H5N1 bird ...
Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or ...
Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...
Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...
Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...
Flu activity continues to ebb nationwide, with rates of influenza-like illness (ILI) dropping further last week, but ...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reported 6 more H5N1 avian flu ...
Notes from a recent meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ COVID-19 Work Group show health ...
This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.
Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...