The Latest Breaking News from Influenza

Avian influenza has been spreading among wild birds for years, but spillover into mammals and people has experts worried.

Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic. The novel coronavirus, dubbed SARS-CoV-2, began as a “cluster of severe pneumonia cases of unknown cause” reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It had spread to 118,000 cases reported in…

Flu across the U.S. is at moderate to very high levels this year

Agriculture Victoria says H7N8 strain of avian influenza has been detected at a poultry farm at Euroa

Number of patients increasing by about 15,000 per week

Prior to this latest case, 68 people in 11 states had been infected with an H5 strain of avian influenza.

The U.S. is currently experiencing very high levels of seasonal influenza across the country. Here's why.

At least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 influenza-linked deaths—including 57 children—have plagued the U.S. this season.

It comes weeks after quarantine restrictions were lifted on the last property affected by Victoria’s 2024 avian influenza outbreak – our largest on record