Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Does avian influenza affect wild birds? Find out if you need to take down bird feeders. Plus learn the risk to backyard ...

Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High Plains.

As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked ...

Some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift cards to people in the community to get swabbed for a potential bird flu infection or to get a shot of the regular seasonal influenza vaccine.

Researchers from the University of Minnesota are studying the presence of avian influenza in dairy cattle. This research comes after the College of Veterinary Medicine received a $1.5 million grant ...

Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the Texas High Plains. Among them: foxes, raccoons, skunks and cats. The virus is ...

Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...