U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health and human services secretary has raised significant concerns among scientists and public health officials.They ...

President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a team of medical contrarians and health care critics to fulfill an agenda aimed ...

By MIKE STOBBE The team that President-elect Donald Trump has selected to lead federal health agencies in his second ...

For the first time ever, the nominee to lead the nation's public health agency will need to be confirmed by the Senate. If OK'd, the former Florida congressman would manage about 13,500 employees in ...

A teenager in British Columbia is in critical condition after being exposed to H5N1 bird flu. The source of the virus has not been determined. The teen is the first presumptive case of H5N1 bird ...

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Avian flu typically spreads between wild and domestic birds but can spread to other animals and people. There have now been more than 40 confirmed human cases in the United States, according to ...

H5N1 avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 dairy cattle herds across 15 states. The virus has popped up in mammals ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - For the first time ever, Hawaii’s Department of Health believes they’ve detected H5 Avian influenza from a wastewater site on Oahu. DOH did not immediately provide ...

2:12 H5N1 avian influenza: B.C. reports 1st suspected human case of bird flu Health Canada has authorized three influenza vaccines that could be used if bird flu became a pandemic, the agency says.

Canada's public health agency has confirmed the first case of H5N1 avian influenza in the country in a B.C. teenager who is in critical condition. In a statement, the Public Health Agency of ...