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

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

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

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.

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, or avian influenza is now sickening wild birds. As a result, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota is ...

In its announcement this week of the first human death from bird flu in the United States, health officials in Louisiana were ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains that the virus that sickened the Louisiana patient matched a ...

The first human death from bird flu in the United States has intensified calls for the government to ramp up efforts to stave ...

The first human patient in the United States with a confirmed case of avian influenza has died, according to a press release ...

Since March of last year, the U.S. has reported 66 bird flu infections, primarily mild cases among farmworkers exposed to sick poultry or dairy cows.

H5N1 - has led to the first known casualty. While there is no known cure, the CDC does recommend methods to protect yourself.