Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...

Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...

Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...

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

Researchers at Texas Biomed identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is ...

Transmission has largely been documented in poultry. While hummingbirds are likely safe, bird feeders could attract infected ...

At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the ...

More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu, data from the U.S. Department of ...

The CDC says the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus ...

Eggs are in short supply in California and high priced due to bird flu, laws, high labor and supply costs, and increased ...

Health officials say the consistent, very low-level detections indicate a high likelihood that H5 bird flu virus is on Kauai.

Bird flu is being cited as the cause of the recent deaths of a Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo, the zoo ...