Another batch of 900 arrived last week and some 900 more will soon make their way to the roughly 140-acre farm in Aquebogue, ...

More than 14,000 flu patients have flooded New York hospitals so far in 2025, as the state appears to be gripped by a record-breaking flu season. The weekly flu hospitalization tally for New York ...

NEW YORK - Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday announced the closure of live poultry markets in New York City and three counties after seven cases of bird flu were detected at markets in the five boroughs ...

New York State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said the state health department “is using all the tools at its disposal to monitor for avian influenza in human beings, and we’re ...

Amid declining vaccinations rates, a mother from New York is turning her pain into purpose decades after her young daughter died from the flu. It comes as staggering numbers show a record number ...

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In New York, health authorities on Wednesday warned of the dangers of vaccine misinformation as the state announced its highest pediatric death toll on record for any flu season, with 25 children ...

But it is unclear just how infectious a human-to-human strain of bird flu could be, and epidemiologists fear a novel virus could inundate New York's hospitals and bring the health care system to ...

ALBANY — The state Health Department announced Wednesday that the 2024-2025 flu season has seen the highest recorded death toll ever among children who contracted the respiratory illness.

But experts still have some concerns about a bird flu outbreak. By Joseph Goldstein Four years after a new coronavirus swept through New York in what was called a once-in-a-century event ...