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

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island hasn't had any human cases of bird flu, and the H5N1 avian influenza hasn't been detected in any commercial bird flocks here. However, the highly pathogenic virus has ...

A coalition of 26 states and the District of Columbia has filed a sweeping lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and ...

Were that to happen, Chan said, Rhode Island is in a stronger position to respond to an H5N1 outbreak than it was to COVID-19. “The good news about influenza is that even though H5N1 is a new ...