As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...

At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the ...

Medical experts advise that people should get a vaccine for the bird flu when it becomes commercially available. One doctor ...

Concern rises after positive cases found in wild birds and poultry in Delaware’s Kent County and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Joseph Journell of San Bernadino lost two of his beloved cats, a 14-year-old tabby, Alexander, and Tuxsie, a 4-year-old ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitals treating people for the flu should test them for avian influenza within 24 hours.

The experiment of whether H5 can ever be successful in human populations is happening before our eyes,” Seema Lakdawala, a ...

A Louisiana patient has become the first to die of bird flu in the US. According to AP News, state health officials announced ...

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 ...

The U.S. has experienced its first death from bird flu (H5N1). The death happened in a Louisiana patient who contracted H5N1 ...