The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitals treating people for the flu should test them for avian influenza within 24 hours.
The CDC has confirmed a positive bird flu case in a child in San Francisco, the second juvenile case of H5N1 in the country.
Farmers, animal rescues and zookeepers in Rhode Island are taking precautions to protect animals, their workers and the ...
Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...
The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...
Care for the flu is generally supportive — meaning rest, hydration, and over-the-counter medication, but as the Mayo Clinic ...
Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...
Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...