Valley fever is caused by inhaling spores of coccidioides, a fungal pathogen that thrives in the drier and dustier regions of ...

Following an alert in early December from Kansas game wardens about geese carrying bird flu into Kansas, the City of Newton said that dozens of dead geese reported in recent weeks at the wetlands on ...

The Stanislaus and San Joaquin County sheriff's offices said they were aware of the reports, but that none have been credible ...

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

A new mutation and the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu discovered in a human in Louisiana has raised concern among some ...

It’s safe to drink pasteurized milk but people run a high risk if they drink raw milk” — Linda Pinfold, agricultural ...

Avian flu outbreaks and increased demand during the holiday season are being blamed for high egg prices in Massachusetts ...

A Louisiana woman with the first severe case of bird flu in the US had a mutated form of the disease that may make it more ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient in a way that could potentially make the virus more transmissible to humans, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Flu surges in US as vaccinations lag ... popping up in herd after herd of cows in the Midwest and then California. Dozens of human infections in farmworkers had been reported, but the ones connected ...

Ground turkey in pet food was found to be contaminated by the bird flu virus after it killed a house cat. Now there's a 12-state pet food recall.

The death of an Oregon house cat, who became ill after eating raw pet food contaminated with bird flu, recently prompted a ...