Once primarily a disease affecting birds, the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus aka Bird Flu has recently been detected in cattle ...

H5N1 Virus is a latest chronic health threat against the entire world, this article helps to know the measured and world ...

The general public are showing “ignorance and apathy” towards the threat of bird flu, say the authors of a new editorial, ...

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

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.

A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and preventing a ...

Bernice and Frank Monteleone have been raising minks on their farm in Elgin. The couple bought their first mink in 1959 — a ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections ...

(Reuters) - Several U.S. Department of Agriculture employees who worked on the agency's bird flu response will leave at the end of April, straining the federal capacity to monitor the spread of ...

Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping cuts to the nation's public health agencies. Cuts to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help local ...

A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of the virus, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's Health Ministry ...