There is an inherent conflict of interest – and the potential for injury to public health – when a federal department both ...

California health officials reported Tuesday that a child in Alameda Co. has been infected with bird flu; source unknown.

Last week, health officials in Canada reported an H5N1 infection in a previously healthy British Columbia teen who is ...

In 2009, H1N1 bird flu caused the first global flu pandemic in 40 years, with the first infections detected in California.

As respiratory season ramps up in Ontario, hospitals are being asked to take extra steps to screen patients for avian ...

Ducks and geese on a backyard farm in Oahu, the state's main island, tested positive for H5N1 last week, which was likely ...

A viral respiratory disease is causing a multi-state outbreak in wild birds, poultry and other animals. Bird flu has also lead to more than four dozen infections in people in the U.S. While most human ...

The World Is Watching The U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, And It's Scary As a virus scientist in South Africa, I’ve been watching with dread as H5N1 bird flu spreads among animals in the United States. The ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...