Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens ...

Two European regulators said on Wednesday they were tracking variants of the bird flu virus due to the threat of the pathogen ...

The number of bird flu cases in Central Massachusetts is relatively low, compared to a swath of the state that runs from ...

The H5N9 strain of avian influenza is much more rare than the H5N1 which has been responsible for most of the reported human ...

To learn more about the recent bird flu outbreaks, we spoke with Asha Shah, MD, director of infectious diseases and ...

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

If bird flu is lurking undetected on Minnesota’s dairy farms, the state is determined to find it. Starting in February, milk ...

there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different influenza viruses mix. A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for ...

Large-scale poultry vaccinations may be driving bird flu evolution, according to a concerning new international study.

A bird flu death was not unexpected, virus experts said. More than 460 people have died from versions of the H5N1 bird flu virus since 2003, according to the World Health Organization. The bird ...