Health officials in California are now offering gift cards to encourage people near farms to get tested for bird flu.

However, another strain of flu that often makes headlines is the bird flu, also known as avian influenza. While both bird flu and regular flu are caused by influenza viruses, their origins ...

Outreach workers who teach farmworkers about the bird flu, provide protective gear, and connect them with tests say they noticed a dramatic shift — first in California, the state hit hardest by the ...

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading ... a veterinary researcher at the University of California, Davis. So far, H5N1 flu hasn't acquired the key trick of passing with ease ...

Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts, according to researchers. This is a KFF Health News story. Aggressive deportation tactics have terrorized farmworkers at the center of the ...

SIDDIPET: Animal Husbandry department officials have started culling 70,000 chickens in a poultry farm at Kangal village in Thoguta mandal after several birds died of bird flu. By Wednesday ...

Flu can also trigger sepsis, an extreme, body-wide immune reaction. Runaway inflammation driven by sepsis can lead to tissue damage and fatal organ failure. Bird flu, or avian influenza ...

Outreach workers who teach farmworkers about the bird flu, provide protective gear, and connect them with tests say they noticed a dramatic shift — first in California, the state hit hardest by ...