The most common way to detect bird flu involves swabbing potentially contaminated sites and sequencing the DNA that’s been ...

Several U.S. Department of Agriculture employees who worked on the agency's bird flu response will leave at the end of April, ...

Bird flu should no longer be considered solely an avian virus due to the growing spread of the disease in mammals, a leading ...

Head of state veterinary lab says cuts to federal employees will disrupt data sharing, coordinated approach to fighting bird ...

An H5N1 avian influenza virus molecule. Ruslanas Baranauskas/Corona Borealis ... that are the first line of defense in the ...

A highly pathogenic version of avian influenza virus, commonly referred to as bird flu, was detected in wild birds in the ...

that does not absolutely protect against the disease — you turn those flocks into mutation factories,” Kennedy said. Brown ...

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

The warning from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization came on March 17, the same day the a new U.S. outbreak of ...

When pets contract bird flu, it can look like a neurologic disease, similar to rabies. If your dog or cat is having a seizure ...

Disease forecasts are like weather forecasts: We cannot predict the finer details of a particular outbreak or a particular ...