The damage to those commercial industries has been severe. By the CDC’s accounting, bird flu has struck down nearly 131 ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about another pandemic, yet the overall risk to the ...

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

A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.

There is still a danger, however: a person in Louisiana recently became the first person in the country to die from H5N1.

A person in Louisiana who was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu has died. The hospitalization, first announced Dec.

For influenza viruses, imperfection is a strength. They constantly mutate, producing new strains that challenge immune ...

The case in Louisiana is the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. during this current outbreak, but there was a death ...

A 28-year-old Cambodian man died from bird flu on Friday after eating sick chickens, the health ministry said.

Lab testing detected the first Maryland case of bird flu (H5N1) linked to a poultry operation in Caroline County.

Seven dead snow geese on the Eastern Shore were found to have the new H5N1 bird flu virus, confirmed the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.