Dr. Leonard Mermel, medical director of the Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control at Brown University Health, ...

When egg prices are high, people hold off on making omelets. When the prices of eggs stay high, and in fact continue to rise due to circumstances like bird flu, people start feeling the pressure on ...

Dr. Victoria Heimer McGinn, a neuroscientist and president of Brain Waves Rhode Island, joined 12 News at 4 Wednesday to discuss how her organization advocates for brain health and research.

The pandemic served as a boot camp for Rhode Island public health officials and infectious diseases doctors, preparing them for future health crises ...

Essential care workers gathered on the State House steps Tuesday afternoon for a COVID-19 five-year remembrance event to honor those lost to the pandemic and to call for more action. On Tuesday, ...

Bird flu, or the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), is widely present in Rhode Island’s wild waterfowl, according to the Department of Environmental Management (DEM).

As avian flu spreads throughout the country, not even Block Island is immune from its effects, and this week the Rhode Island ...

As H5N1 spreads rapidly, wild birds remain at risk. Here’s what to know about the outbreak and how to keep your feathered ...

In March 2024, for the first time in the United States, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was ...

The virus, also known as bird flu or H5N1, has disrupted the work of poultry farmers for years and began infecting dairy herds last year. But a recent spike in egg prices has led to renewed public ...

A school-aged child in Texas is the first reported individual to die from measles amid an outbreak in the South Plains and ...