A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Binding More Efficiently to Human Cells Canada’s first human case of bird flu has ...

With more than 133 million poultry birds affected by avian influenza across the U.S., some states are experiencing egg shortages.

While highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been confirmed in 923 dairy herds in 16 states, California has been hit the ...

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

At the Pennsylvania Farm Show, poultry can only be seen in photos. The cages where they would be kept are empty. It's an ...

More than 50,5 million birds in US poultry farms have been slaughtered because of outbreaks of avian flu among flocks in over forty states, according to the Department of Agriculture. The disease ...

An infectious disease expert says the relatively mild cases of avian influenza detected so far among dairy workers don’t ...

The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about another pandemic, yet the overall risk to the ...

Bird flu has been spreading into Texas, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Division (TPWD) said it recently found cases in Travis, Wharton, Galveston, El Paso, Potter and Harris counties.

Why the results surprised anyone is itself a surprise. After the state of California began testing dairy herds for highly ...