PHAC has increased its risk assessment for avian flu, saying, while the risk remains low for the general public, the ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitals treating people for the flu should test them for avian ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the risk of the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in Nigeria is moderate.

Over the past several days, the world has watched on in shock as wildfires have devastated large parts of Los Angeles.Authors Christine Carson ...

The CDC is monitoring developments closely because the United States is in the middle of flu season. With more patients ...

But, fatalities are not uncommon with H5N1 infections overall. According to data collected by the WHO, there have been 954 documented cases between 2003 and 2024. Of those, 464 were fatal, leading to ...

A person hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died, marking the first fatality linked to the currently circulating infection ...

Nipah virus (NiV), a zoonotic paramyxovirus with significant human health implications, has garnered considerable attention ...

Among 547 episodes of C difficile infection documented in cancer patients in Australia and Spain, 50% were severe, and the 90 ...

Human-to-human spread has not been detected, so what's the real risk? https://p.dw.com ... The teenager has since recovered, but an assessment of her infection found key genetic mutations that ...

A day after the United States reported its first human death from avian flu, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) insisted ...