The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking that people with flu severe enough to require hospitalization ...

The CDC has revealed the red flags it is monitoring for that suggest that bird flu was about to become the world's next pandemic.

The CDC recommends that hospitalized flu patients be tested for bird flu within 24 hours to timely identify avian influenza A ...

Due to ongoing sporadic H5N1 avian flu infections and brisk levels of seasonal flu activity, the US Centers for Disease ...

The CDC called findings about bird flu mutations in a human case “concerning” but says the risk to the general public from ...

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

First human case of severe bird flu in the US has died, Louisiana officials reported. Patient was over 65 with underlying conditions. Mutation updates, here.

In the CDC's most recent update on December 24, the agency said the infection has been detected in 10,917 birds across 51 jurisdictions. The vast majority of human cases of bird flu manifest from ...

The CDC's analysis revealed changes in the hemagglutinin (HA) gene, a critical component for the virus's ability to attach to host cells. The mutations "were not found in virus sequences from poultry ...

At least 65 human cases of H5 bird flu have been confirmed this year, with the majority being detected in California.