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 ...

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

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

Amid an escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States, federal health officials have begun to brief members of ...

Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

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

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

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 ...

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

On Monday, Louisiana health officials announced that a person hospitalized last month with a severe case of avian influenza — ...

The patient contracted avian influenza after exposure to a non-commercial ... Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control ...