At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It's a sign that ...

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 ...

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 ...

“That doesn’t feel terribly logical.” Letting bird flu run through poultry flocks is “not advisable and this will cause ...

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 ...

The federal government is allocating an additional $1 billion to combat the avian bird flu leading to culling and high egg ...

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.

Mexico has detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday.

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

Multiple FDA labs were cut amid Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s layoffs this week.

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.

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 ...