A 65-year-old patient in Louisiana died after contracting the H5N1 strain of bird flu, with an expert warning that the virus ...
Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...
Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...
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 ...
Transmission has largely been documented in poultry. While hummingbirds are likely safe, bird feeders could attract infected ...
Health officials have identified another possible case of bird flu in a child — this time in San Francisco. The San Francisco ...
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 ...
At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the ...
In recent weeks, the bird flu has been reported in six counties across the Delmarva Peninsula. The virus has been found in ...
The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be ...
A California man says his two cats died and a third was hospitalized after he fed them raw milk recalled for bird flu risk.