Those most likely to get infected are usually people who are in close contact with birds, such as poultry workers. The strains that can impact humans include A (H5N1) or A (H7N9), with H5N1 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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