A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

In its announcement this week of the first human death from bird flu in the United States, health officials in Louisiana were ...

Any time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction. When ...

Two people are sick in Oakland County and nine others are being monitored after they had contact with H5N1 bird flu from an ...

CDC reported the death of a person due to the H5N1 bird flu virus. Bird flu spreads from animals and birds to humans. The ...

The bird flu, also known as avian influenza and H5N1, was implicated in the first human death from the infectious disease on ...

As bird flu cases crop up across the country, here's what a food safety expert wants you to know about getting the virus from ...

The U.S. has experienced its first death from bird flu (H5N1). The death happened in a Louisiana patient who contracted H5N1 after being exposed to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and ...

Basic public health protections help augment our national security protections,” particularly when it comes to emerging ...

The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about another pandemic, yet the overall risk to the general public still remains low ...

California State Veterinarian Dr. Annette Jones has issued a statewide ban on dairy cattle and poultry exhibitions to combat ...