From the outset of the Trump administration, bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has flown rather conspicuously — and in fact ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ended its emergency response to the H5N1 avian flu. A spokesperson ...

An older person in Louisiana exposed to bird flu from a backyard flock is now hospitalized with a "severe" case of avian influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended its emergency response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, a move ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks within poultry and U.S. dairy cows. Recently, there have been several human cases of bird flu within U ...

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, ... The first reported death from bird flu in the U.S. was a patient in Louisiana who had been exposed to infected sick and dead birds in backyard flocks, ...

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected. Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

Avian flu, or bird flu, refers to a group of diseases that result from infections with specific influenza viruses. ... and there are no additional human cases of H5N1 in Louisiana.

Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but the recent appearance in mammals of the potentially dangerous avian influenza A strain, H5N1 — the bird flu virus — demands redoubling ...

The patient in Louisiana was infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which is a virus that can infect both birds and mammals.The virus in this particular patient revealed genetic ...