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

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

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 ...

Bird flu is being cited as the cause of the recent deaths of a Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo, the zoo ...

Lincoln Park Zoo said the specific source of the exposure of the animals to bird flu, or H5N1 virus, is not known.

Bird flu is increasingly sparking concern across the country and in Illinois, following news this week of the first human ...

Each detection was “so low that it was not considered a positive result,” adding that “the consistent very low-level ...

A man says he is in "mental anguish" over the death of his two cats, after feeding them raw milk to improve their health.

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

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 ...

A 65-year-old patient in Louisiana died after contracting the H5N1 strain of bird flu, with an expert warning that the virus ...