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

Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can ...

One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker, just weeks after the virus had been found in cattle for the first time ever. While the ...

“This biosensor is the first of its kind,” said Rajan Chakrabarty, a professor of energy, environmental, and chemical ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

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 ...

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 said ...

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 ...

Bird flu has caused the death of millions of birds in South Dakota, the state with the second-highest number of outbreaks in the US. While no human cases have been reported in South Dakota ...

Egg prices continue to hit records as Easter and Passover approach Egg prices again reached a record high in February, as the bird flu continues to run rampant and Easter and Passover approach.

Now, the United Nations is urging member governments to take coordinated action to address the “unprecedented” spread of highly pathogenic bird flu — a threat to health, food security ...

It added that the risk to humans remained very low. By Stephen Castle Reporting from London Bird flu has infected a sheep in Britain in what the government on Monday described as the first case of ...