In June of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the death of a person who had contracted the bird flu strain A (H5N2), the first laboratory-confirmed human case of influenza A ...

In May, authorities in Mexico confirmed a fatal human case of H5N2 bird flu. The patient was the first human to become ...

For example, in 2004, a highly dangerous bird flu strain appeared in a Texas chicken flock. The outbreak involved an H5N2 virus (not the H5N1 bird flu). By April 2004, the outbreak had ended.

Elsewhere in Asia, there have been further poultry outbreaks in Indonesia, Israel, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan.

All year, I’ve been keeping tabs on the H5N1 avian flu outbreak in dairy cattle and birds in the United States. As a front-line emergency physician, my stake in this is clear: I want to know if ...

The first severe human bird flu case in the United States was reported in Louisiana earlier this month. Genetic analysis found the virus had mutated, making it more easily transmissible to humans ...

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

Egg prices rose to a record high in the U.S. recently, hitting $5.27 a carton. Egg prices will remain high this winter as ...