As a virus scientist in South Africa, I’ve been watching with dread as H5N1 bird flu spreads among animals in the United ...

Bird flu has spread far and wide, infecting a range of species like chickens, skunks, cows, foxes and polar bears. But it's ...

Remember the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009? Well, H5N1 bird flu could be next - H5N1 bird flu has infected more than 50 ...

It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up.

Stat reports there's no evidence that the teen has infected anyone else. The source of the infection has not been determined. Meanwhile, Hawaii — which has strict agricultural rules to prevent the ...

There are many reasons to strenuously oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services. But this one ...

Officials in California and Washington have said they are seeking to administer seasonal flu vaccines to farm workers in an effort to reduce their risk of being infected with both bird flu and ...

A growing number of countries are considering once-taboo vaccines. France last year began vaccinating ducks for bird flu. New Zealand, which has never had a case of bird flu, is testing a vaccine on ...

California health officials have identified a possible bird flu case in a child who was tested for mild upper respiratory ...

Officials suspect wild migrating birds are likely to blame for the first known infection of a flock in Hawaii, which had been the last state in the country with no reported cases in poultry or wild ...

The H5N1 virus that infected a Canadian teen appears not to have spread, but it shows signs of mutation that makes flu ...

Unlike poultry, the avian flu is not typically lethal to dairy cows. If infected, the cow is separated from the rest of the ...