The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are monitoring the bird flu situation in the United States. Here's what to know and how to stay safe.

Respiratory viruses are continuing to spread across the United States and such activity "is expected to continue for several more weeks."

On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the United States' first known case of novel coronavirus -- what would later come to be known as COVID-19.

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in

The H5N1 virus has mutated meaning it has begun to adapt to infect humans better raising new questions about H5N1's pandemic potential.

CDC officials say medical professionals are seeing more patients whose illness cannot be traced back to an infected animal or bird.

The CDC has issued a Level 3 travel advisory for Rwanda due to an outbreak of the Marburg virus. The agency will also screen travelers from Rwanda.

The Trump administration has paused almost all external communication from health agencies including the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Africa's reliance on World Health Organization support faces a critical test after Donald Trump withdrew the United States – and the considerable funding it contributes – from the global body. The

The virus, often colloquially referred to as “stomach flu,” saw the percentage of positive tests double during the first week of January compared to last year. Positive test percentages for cases of norovirus in the United States are double what they were at the same period a year ago,

Bird flu, also known as the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, has been making the rounds in the United States over the last year and appears to be resurging again, according to officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.