The number of people catching the flu has continued to surge this month, and Pittsburgh has not been immune. According to data from the Allegheny County Health Department, cases of the flu are at ...

There has been a steep rise in flu cases across Pennsylvania, and the number of flu patients admitted to the hospital is rising.

BUTLER COUNTY, PA — Butler County reported cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza last week. The bird flu was detected in a backyard flock of 610 birds, according to the U.S. Department of ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza – often referred to as HPAI – recently was confirmed in American crows in Allegheny County.

Avian influenza (aka H5N1 or bird flu) could pose the most serious threat to the national egg supply, as well as, the people ...

Three years into the epidemic that has claimed the lives of nearly 170 million farmed birds and caused 70 known human ...

Efforts to address bird flu mostly focus on tightening up farm facilities, killing infected animals and frantically tracking a rapidly branching tree of viral strains. Yet most media coverage fails to ...

Since 2022, more than 7 million chickens, ducks and other fowl in Pennsylvania have been affected by avian flu.

After speculation as to whether this year’s flu vaccine could be poorly matched to the current strain of flu, new Centers for ...

To help better understand the situation at hand, Meowtel used data from the Department of Agriculture to explore the risk of ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming respiratory virus season, but without input from its independent vaccine advisers.