Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

Bird flu has been found in all states, including Ingham County. So should you be refilling your backyard bird feeder this ...

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

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission and ...

Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts to prevent and detect bird flu infections among farmworkers, ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...

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

A recent study has revealed that a single genetic change in a strain of the highly pathogenic H5 influenza virus could ...

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 ...

MassWildlife also asks hunters to report sick or deceased birds if they find five or more at a single location, as this could be a sign of a possible outbreak. Spring turkey hunting season in ...

Genetic reshuffling — aka antigenic shift — between a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza and a strain of human influenza could create a new strain that's even more infectious among ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed 130 cases of H5N1 avian influenza in domestic cats spread across 23 states, ...