The Hawaii Department of Health detected very low levels of H5 avian influenza (bird flu) in samples from the Lihue ...

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 ...

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

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

The bird flu continues to be in the national headlines and it isn't a new virus. It was first identified in 1878 in Northern ...

H5N1 bird flu was diagnosed in a flock of turkeys in Nahalal in the Jezreel Valley. Following an unusual mortality of approximately 24,000 turkeys, before marketing at the age of 16 weeks, in five ...

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

A deadly bird flu outbreak has wreaked havoc on U.S. chicken farms, claiming the lives of over 20 million egg-laying chickens ...

An Olalla farm is an example of the measures taken to protect flocks, pets and more from an ongoing bird flu outbreak.

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