The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.

A patient in Missouri who was hospitalized after an infection with bird flu had the H5N1 strain of the virus, the US Centers ...

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man ...

A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the ...

September will soon be drawing to a close. The kids are back to school, and those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are ...

An extensive look at wastewater samples taken across the United States from May to July found traces of the H5N1 bird flu ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it has yet to identify “a clear source” of infection in a ...

Federal officials are still trying to determine how a Missouri resident with no known exposure to bird flu, contracted the ...

The Missouri case raised questions about the possibility of human-to-human bird flu transmission, but officials said there is ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has picked five lab partners to develop a test for avian influenza A (H5N1) — ...

There is no current threat of the bird flu becoming a pandemic, but the partnership aims to prepared for any situation.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday confirmed a human case of avian influenza A reported by the state of Missouri.