The first human to have ever been infected with H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials confirmed ...

H5N5 is not believed to be a greater threat to human health than the H5N1 virus, which was behind a wave of human infections ...

Type A viruses are the most significant for human and animal health, and they are all descended from avian viruses. The flu A ...

Canadian federal officials carried out a massive cull, executing nearly 300 ostriches by firing the birds late Thursday night ...

A WARNING has been issued to not “touch or handle” any sick or dead birds amid fears over a strain that can infect and kill ...

Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified a few instances of asymptomatic human ...

A sixth case of bird flu in the space of a month has been confirmed in Suffolk. The Department for Environment, Food and ...

A recent JAMA Network Open review confirmed that asymptomatic human infections with highly pathogenic H5N1 (avian flu) are ...

Rare asymptomatic H5N1 bird flu infections detected in humans. Learn how to stay safe and what experts say about this silent, ...

A third case of mammal-to-human transmission of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus has been reported in the United States. This latest case, involving a dairy worker in Michigan, raises ...

Earlier this fall, the FDA issued a reminder to pet food manufacturers to consider the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in their food safety plans as H5N1 cases tend to increase during the fall ...

Over the past few weeks, further outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been confirmed on poultry farms in Japan ...