One person had died from the disease. In early January, a backyard flock keeper hospitalized with bird flu in Louisiana became the first person in the United States to die of the disease after ...

A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the ...

Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering ...

A case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza was confirmed in a backyard flock in part of West Virginia. According to a press ...

A case of bird flu has been confirmed in a "backyard flock" of poultry. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural ...

Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, ...

H5N5 is found in wild birds around the world, and it is relatively common for it to pass from them into flocks of poultry.

While the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza continues to pop up around Michigan and infecting poultry farms, the strain that ...

A Hawaiian monk seal swims in a pool after receiving a bird flu vaccine at Ke Kai Ola in Kailua-Kona. The endangered Hawaiian ...

It’s crucial that we monitor bird flu strains to help us prepare for potential outbreaks," said virologist Matt Turnbull.

From a containment standpoint they want to make sure everything is dead and there’s no more contamination of the virus,” ...

Zoetis, a veterinary pharmaceutical company, donated some doses of its bird flu vaccine. In October, at four-months-old, the ...