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Hospital operators in the U.S. are likely to see a dip in fourth-quarter profits as an ongoing staffing crunch limits their ability to take advantage of an early onset of the flu season and boost admissions....

Bulgaria will begin culling about 25,000 quails and destroy quail eggs on an industrial farm near the capital Sofia after detecting a highly infectious strain of bird flu, the food safety authorities said on Wednesday....

Microsoft's revenue growth rarely falters. So its 2% increase in the latest quarter, the slowest in over five years, is alarming. Customers who overinvested during the pandemic are now retrenching, even on Microsoft's staples. It's a poor omen...

Shares of leading U.S. egg producer Cal-Maine Foods dipped to their lowest level in over five months on Wednesday, extending declines after the deadliest bird flu outbreak in U.S. history drove the stock to record highs last year....

Ecuador reported its first case of human transmission of bird flu in a 9-year-old girl, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday, marking a rare case of human infection a month after the country declared an animal health emergency....

Genomic sequencing allowed the world to track new coronavirus variants throughout the pandemic. Now British researchers plan to use it to better understand a host of other respiratory pathogens, from influenza to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)....

Japan plans to cull more than 10 million chickens because of the spread of bird flu, a record for the peak infection season that runs from October to May, an agriculture ministry official said on Tuesday....