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

The CDC says the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus ...

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

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 ...

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 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated ...

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

Health officials have identified another possible case of bird flu in a child — this time in San Francisco. The San Francisco ...