We cannot predict the finer details of a particular outbreak or a particular storm, but we can often identify when these ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

Knowable Magazine answers questions about how dangerous bird flu is, where it came from, and what key events paved the way ...

One year ago, a human infection of bird flu was reported in Texas. One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in ...

“This biosensor is the first of its kind,” said Rajan Chakrabarty, a professor of energy, environmental, and chemical ...

A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of the virus, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's Health Ministry said ...

The viruses that cause avian influenza are potential threats to global health. Recent animal outbreaks from a subtype called H5N1 have been especially troubling to scientists. Although human ...

Health officials in Mexico say a 3-year-old girl from the western state of Durango is the country’s first confirmed human ...

A source says USDA employees who worked on bird flu response have accepted incentives to leave the agency, which could strain ...

The good news is that people can take basic measures to slow down the evolution of H5N1 and potentially reduce the lethality of avian influenza should it ever become a common human infection.