The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, the state health department said Monday. The person who contracted the H5N1 ...

State agencies are issuing avian influenza (HPAI) precautions after detection of the virus in locations they manage. Although ...

Although human-to-human transmission has not been confirmed in this case, H5N1 remains a latent threat, raising alarms in the ...

The H5N9 strain of avian influenza is much more rare than the H5N1 which has been responsible for most of the reported human ...

H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the ...

The newly reported H5N9 strain was found Monday at a duck farm in Merced County, California, according to the World ...

A patient in Louisiana has died from avian influenza in what authorities consider to be the first severe H5N1 infection in a ...

"Cats (domestic and large felids) in particular can experience severe illness or death from infection with H5N1. Dogs can also contract H5N1, although they usually exhibit mild clinical signs and low ...

A Michigan animal sanctuary owner alleged state authorities were inhumane when they culled her birds. She changed the state's H5N1 depopulation code.

Bird flu has sickened several dozen people around the U.S. and left one person dead while egg price hikes and shortages have ...