The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said in a routine flu update that two people, in Wyoming and Ohio, have been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu. While the patient from Ohio has been released,

For three straight weeks, Ohio is at the highest level of flu spread, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The first case of bird flu in a human in Ohio has been reported, according to officials. A farm worker from Mercer County, Ohio, located on the state's western border along Indiana, came into contact with deceased poultry that was infected with the virus, the Ohio Department of Health announced on Wednesday.

Influenza A — a nasty flu strain that fueled the 2009 flu epidemic — has been landing Ohioans in the hospital since the beginning of the year. The second, less severe wave of flu-like illness, driven by the flu strain called influenza B, is expected to hit between mid-February and March.

Bird flu has now spread to humans in a dozen states after public health officials confirmed an Ohio man had contracted the disease. The Mercer County farm worker had come into contact with deceased commercial poultry,

In November, the CDC posted a study that found dairy workers may have gotten sick without showing symptoms after being exposed to infected cows. Ohio's first human case of bird flu was announced by the Ohio Department of Health Wednesday. A man from Mercer ...

Ohio overdose deaths saw an 8.7% decrease from 2022 to 2023, exceeding the U.S. overdose decrease of 4% over that same time according to a recent study by the CDC. Ohio went from 45.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2022,

Ohio's first human bird flu case was reported in Mercer County yesterday. Learn about testing for the virus, symptoms and the Ohio egg farming industry.

With emergencies declared for bird flu in Mercer and Darke counties, 2 NEWS is digging deeper into how the virus spreads. Avian Influenza has been detected at more than 60 poultry farms in the Miami Valley.

Ohio's health department confirmed Saturday that a farmer in the state was discharged from the hospital after being sickened by bird flu, marking the fourth American to have been hospitalized with the H5N1 virus.

A day after the first human case of the bird flu had been reported in Ohio, a new study from the CDC has been released on the topic, suggesting that some people

The CDC has not included the case from Ohio in its data. Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, is a virus that can sometimes spread from infected animals, like birds and cows, to humans ...