One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable ...

Researchers from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute reported in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infections that one of ...

H5N1 remains a major threat to poultry and wild bird populations, leading to large-scale culling of domestic fowl in many ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

More than 100 chickens, geese, ducks and other birds at Hess-Hathaway Park in Waterford have been culled after some tested ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that 15 more states have enrolled in a national H5N1 milk testing program, ...

The report echoes calls by other scientists to ramp up the surveillance of felines, which are susceptible to the virus and ...

It is possible that horses were forced to feed on the carcasses of dead birds, the natural carriers of H5N1, as much of ...

The H5N1 bird flu has been reported to have caused the death of a patient in Louisiana. Such a case poses a significant threat to public health and can be considered an important stage in combating ...

A man in Louisiana has become the first person ever to die of H5N1 bird flu in the United States. The patient, a 65-year-old ...

New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) suggests that many people already have immune cells on “stand by” to fight the H5N1 virus, also known as highly pathogenic ...

A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, in ...