After a summer hiatus, bird flu cases are once again ticking up in the United States. We are flying blind in the face of a potentially catastrophic pandemic threat.
A Washington resident has died after contracting a bird flu strain never before seen in humans. Health officials confirmed it ...
A bird flu virus that has often been ignored because it mostly causes minor disease in birds has the potential to cause a human pandemic, says a team that has tracked how the H9N2 virus has become ...
The CDC says bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses (H5N1) that usually spread between birds, not people. It occurs naturally among wild aquatic birds. It's very contagious among ...
The CDC says bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses (H5N1) that usually spread between birds, not people. It occurs naturally among wild aquatic birds. It's very contagious among ...
An increasing number of poultry farms in Germany are being affected by bird flu. Since the beginning of September, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute has recorded around 31 outbreaks of the virus in ...
After a summer lull in U.S. cases of avian influenza in both poultry and dairy cattle—and no human infections reported in the country since February—the virus is back. The currently circulating bird ...
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) was confirmed in a backyard poultry flock in Racine County. Birds at the site were depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease. The disease can be ...