In its announcement this week of the first human death from bird flu in the United States, health officials in Louisiana were ...

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

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

Researchers are comparing the genetic features of the B.C. patient's avian flu strain with that of a Louisiana patient who ...

Data from the USDA shows more than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu.

We're confident beef, pasteurized milk and dairy products made with pasteurized milk products on shelves are safe, write the ...

Those most likely to get infected are usually people who are in close contact with birds, such as poultry workers. The strains that can impact humans include A (H5N1) or A (H7N9), with H5N1 ...

The latest confirmation likely reflects follow-up testing of a San Francisco child whose exposure to the virus is still under ...

Medical experts advise that people should get a vaccine for the bird flu when it becomes commercially available. One doctor ...

Guam Memorial Hospital Administrator Lilian Perez-Posadas said there are no suspected cases of norovirus or H5N1 infections ...

The funding will help the company develop a slow-release version of zaloganan, an investigational broad-spectrum ...

A British Columbia doctor who treated a 13-year-old avian flu patient says the case has made him concerned about the ...