Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Binding More Efficiently to Human Cells Canada’s first human case of bird flu has ...

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

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

This announcement from the Chicago Department of Public Health comes as respiratory viruses continue to spread across the ...

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

A dead wild bird in Austin was reported to have had bird flu, according to Austin Public Health and the Texas Department of ...

Avian Influenza has been detected in wild birds in Austin, local health authorities announced Wednesday.

Influenza A, COVID-19 and norovirus (stomach flu) are on the rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.

The CDC says the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus could mutate and become more transmissible.

Influenza is affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Japan and rising rapidly among that nation's population of 124.5 ...