Respiratory illness activity is currently considered "high" in the United States, according to the CDC. In one state, it is at a "very high" level.

Experts and some public officials are warning against raw pet foods after a cat in Oregon was found to have died from a ...

Winter is here — as of Dec. 21 it was official — and so is one of its faithful companions, flu season. The Grant County Health District announced the beginning of "respiratory virus" season Friday. It ...

Noroviruses, also known as food poisoning or the stomach bug, are “ common and highly contagious ,” according to the National ...

President-elect Donald Trump must contend with the H5N1 bird flu virus circulating among livestock, which experts fear could ...

Federal health officials have confirmed unsettling new details about the first United States case of severe bird flu, ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States who dedicated much of his life to humanitarian causes, died in his ...

The zoo is monitoring their big cats and their habitats after 20 big cats died from the avian flu in Washington.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Kristen Coleman, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Maryland, about the recent cases of bird flu in cats and what steps to take to protect pets.

Avian influenza has spread far beyond the nation's birds, infecting all manner of creatures from zoo animals, wild mammals, ...

Are you feeling under the weather, Mahoning Valley? There are only four states spreading the flu faster than Ohio.