The nation’s top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program that has become a mainstay of outbreak responses.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is calling this multi-year bird flu outbreak the largest animal health emergency in U.S. history. The flu is widespread among birds worldwide, it's infecting poultry and U.

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is monitoring a recent confirmation of chronic wasting disease in a deer in southwest Indiana near the Kentucky border. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is caused by abnormal proteins that affect white-tailed deer,

The U.S. is in peak flu season, as the CDC releases a map of influenza activity across the country. See which states are at the highest risk of flu activity.

Braun put out a statement underlining that the state was monitoring both the impact of the outbreak on farmers and any risk of human exposure.

Flu cases are climbing across the country and right here in central Indiana. The CDC reports a majority of those cases are Influenza A. Experts are now saying this is one of the worst flu seasons in a very long time.

Monroe County is experiencing an influenza spike higher than the last two winters. That’s according to samples collected at the Dillman Road Wastewater Treatment Plant. The county also has elevated levels of COVID, RSV and norovirus. Reports in December showed the highest levels of norovirus ever sampled in Monroe County.

Nationally, the test positivity rate for the week ending on February 8, was 4.8 percent, according to the CDC's most recent update on its COVID Data Tracker. Regions 10 (Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Idaho),

according to the CDC. The highest rates of positive tests for influenza were recorded in the Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Eleven influenza ...