Public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe bird flu cases in two North American patients.

Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu ...

Public-health experts have been highly critical of the federal and state response to the virus, which was first identified in ...

“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can ...

CDC has asserted that the risk to general public is considerably low, and that there has not been any spread of the bird flu from the patients ...

Butte County officials on Friday confirmed a bird flu outbreak in a backyard chicken flock, the latest case since Gov. Gavin ...

Although bird flu usually does not infect people, there have been some rare cases of human infection with these viruses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Last month, a patient was ...

Hundreds of dead birds have reportedly been falling from the sky in dystopian scenes in Pennsylvania. Wildlife officials ...

There are limited reports of avian flu, otherwise known as H5N1, spreading between humans in other parts of the world, ...

We are currently witnessing the growing spread of H5N1 avian flu across the globe. Here in the United States, the USDA Animal ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated ...