Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms.

Delays in CDC analyses of infectious disease threats and agency silence will harm Americans, doctors and public health experts warn

Three U.S. dairy veterinarians unknowingly had H5N1 infections, otherwise known as bird flu. This included one person who worked only in states without known outbreaks in cows, according to a new study from the U.

Three veterinarians had antibodies to bird flu virus, which suggests recent infection, the report said. None of them knew they were working with dairy cattle with known or suspect