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 ...

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

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

The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...

One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable ...

As sporadic H9N2 infections continue in China, the country's number of more rare H10N3 infections over the past few years is ...

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.

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

An infectious disease expert says the relatively mild cases of avian influenza detected so far among dairy workers don’t ...

This is posing severe risks to livestock, wildlife, and humans. USDA is maintaining heightened biosecurity measures to ...

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 ...