and combination vaccines would best achieve goals for limiting antibiotic resistance." The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today confirmed 62 ...

A family member of two workers at an Otago chicken farm which is at the centre of New Zealand’s first confirmed case of bird ...

In the caption, the NHS further explained: 'Children often don’t need antibiotics because most childhood infections are caused by viruses, like colds and the flu, which antibiotics cannot treat. 'When ...

Receiving no antibiotics for a cold or flu does not mean no treatment. It just means a different approach. One way to start the conversation about whether or not an antibiotic is really necessary is ...

Otago egg farm, weather conditions hinder search for three missing climbers and health care workers on strike. Video / NZ Herald The number of chickens needing to be culled has doubled as bird flu ...

Antibiotics are substances that inhibit the growth of bacteria. They work by killing bacteria or preventing their reproduction, and may be synthesized chemically or by naturally-occurring or ...

But they’re also watching another virus this winter: H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu. U.S. health agencies say that the virus currently poses a low risk to the general public, even though it ...

B.C. health officials say they still don't know how a teenager became infected with the H5N1 strain of avian flu but say no further cases have been identified. Earlier this month, health officials ...

As a Canadian teen remains in critical care with an H5N1 avian flu infection in a British Columbia hospital, health investigators said today they haven't identified the source, but have found other ...