Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...

Nearly a hundred days into his second term, the Hearst Television Data Team analyzed movements in inflation and the stock ...

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

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

A map of avian flu outbreaks in wild birds, commercial poultry and backyard or hobbyist flocks can be found here. As described by TPWD and in previous reports on MyHighPlains.com, avian flu has ...

Michigan's songbird population is not as susceptible to avian influenza - or bird flu - as waterfowl are ... according to a state map. It followed a March 4 detection for backyard poultry in ...

Coloring eggs for Easter is a longstanding holiday tradition – but is it safe as bird flu outbreaks continue across the U.S.? Experts, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Initially identified in China in 1996, the first major outbreak of H5 family avian flu occurred in North America in 2014-2015. This 2014 outbreak was caused by the H5N8 strain, a close relative of ...

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has issued a bird flu warning after 19 birds were found to have died from the disease, and the H5N1 variant has been found on both sides of the Irish border ...