Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

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

A 3-year-old girl from Durango, Mexico, has died from H5N1 Bird Flu, according to the World Health Organization. The child ...

In an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health, a team led by researchers from the CUNY Graduate School of Public ...

Flu can also trigger sepsis, an extreme, body-wide immune reaction. Runaway inflammation driven by sepsis can lead to tissue damage and fatal organ failure. Bird flu, or avian influenza ...

And it's not through with us yet. The question is whether we will act in time to head off a bird flu pandemic. The Spanish Flu was the first of five influenza pandemics since the end of the First ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 despite a drop in wholesale prices and no egg ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the U.S. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...

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 ...

Restrictions to control the rise of bird flu have been extended following two new cases. The outbreaks have appeared in County Durham, prompting an expansion of the rules to cover Darlington.