Over the past three years, avian influenza (H5N1) has spread around the U.S. and affected many species of birds and mammals, ...

As bird flu sweeps across US poultry and cattle farms, researchers are racing to find ways to contain the outbreaks before ...

The affected poultry farm was in quarantine and steps to eliminate the virus were underway, the Arizona Department of ...

Officials said eggs produced after the onset of illness did not enter the food supply, and there are no signs of illness in ...

Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of ...

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...

a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. The current public health risk from H5 bird flu is low ...

Last spring, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly referred to as bird flu, had been confirmed for the first time in U.S.

Bird flu doesn't just mean more expensive eggs. It's presenting a serious health threat. The Global Virus Network has reported at least 70 cases in humans, including cases of severe disease and ...

While today’s declaration of an ‘unaffected’ dairy industry is welcome in Vermont, the state has experienced isolated incidents of the avian, or bird flu strain of HPAI, including as recently as ...

A major study warns that cats need to be monitored more closely as bird flu-carrying birds migrate across the world and pose a greater threat of human-to-human transmission. In recent years ...

Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, was first documented in 1878 in Northern Italy and originally referred to as the “fowl plague,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...