New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

Although the avian flu (H5N1) virus may not be making the news as frequently, it is still working hard behind the scenes, ...

March 31, 2013 - Chinese authorities report the first human cases of infection of avian flu H7N9 to the World Health Organization. H7N9 has not previously been detected in humans.

Researchers in China have discovered how the H5N1 virus initially invades the mammary glands of dairy cattle, potentially leading to last year's outbreak of bird flu across more than 1,000 dairy farms ...

Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the warning of a new paper in the journal Science Advances, which concluded that ...

From the outset of the Trump administration, bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has flown rather conspicuously — and in fact ...

While politicians pose in front of barns, tractors and fields for campaign ads, meaningful agricultural security policy sits ...

China is studying ways to soon lift its ban on imports of chicken meat from Brazil, in place since the South American nation ...

The story of bird flu in this country could have been shorter. ... H5N1, meanwhile, is a flu virus that scientists have been studying since the 1990s, when it was first detected in Chinese fowl.

Cambodia’s Ministry of Health recently confirmed the country’s twelfth human case of H5N1 avian influenza so far this year.

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected. Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death ...