Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sticking his neck out for a group of infected ostriches by offering to save them from the Canadian ...

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

Outbreaks of bird flu in mammals more than doubled across the world last year, raising the risk that the virus could ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland recently revealed a disturbing trend: cats are catching bird flu—and dying from ...

Outbreaks of bird flu in mammals more than doubled across the world last year, raising the risk that the virus could ...

As more humans become infected by H5N1 bird flu, experts worry of a new pandemic with 70 human cases in the U.S. including 1 ...

a type of bird flu virus. (Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie Katz/CDC via AP) It’s unlikely that a severe human infection, requiring hospitalization, would go unnoticed, said Michael Osterholm ...

strains can transform into a virus that humans can contract and spread, according to the AAFP. "Most people who get infected with bird flu have close contact with infected birds or bird droppings ...

So far, 70 human cases have been confirmed ... An example is an individual getting infected with bird flu and seasonal influenza at the same time and a hybrid virus forming as a result.