Ostrich farmers and animal justice advocates are voicing concerns following a Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) decision to cull a herd of 400 ostriches after an avian flu outbreak in the West ...

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 ...

If you have a backyard birth feeder and bird bath, it’s a good idea to take them down. That’s according to the Texas Parks ...

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

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

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

Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...

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

Seasonal influenza vaccines triggered protective immune responses against the H5N1 avian influenza virus primarily in younger ...

Bobbi Pritt, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic, has opened up about conditions required for ...