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

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

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

The U.S. has developed a bird flu vaccine that can be prepared when needed. It’s not currently available because health ...

Today we’re examining a concerning development in the spread of bird flu in the US. But first: Even though Peter Yarrow ...

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

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.

The first U.S. bird flu death has been announced - a person in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms.

The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states. Now at least ...

The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...