A 2.5-year-old returning to Australia from India was infected with a reassortant H5N1 virus, revealing genetic mixing between ...

In coming years, the bird flu may cost billions of dollars more in expenses and losses. Worse, the outbreak poses the threat ...

Extra surveillance is underway to ensure the cases are not masking a highly contagious strain of bird flu that is yet to enter Australia. Surveillance efforts on the New South Wales Central Coast ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday reassured that the risk of human infection from H5N1 avian influenza remains ...

The CDC has revealed the red flags it is monitoring for that suggest that bird flu was about to become the world's next pandemic.

Further tests are being carried out this week to confirm if highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been contained to ...

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists hope things will be different ...

The vast majority of women who contract bird flu during pregnancy and their unborn baby will die from the virus, according to a new study. And the findings stress the importance of early inclusion of ...

So far, the H5N1 virus isn't transmitted between people — but the CDC has found a mutation in a human case "concerning." ...

The bird flu is in Louisiana. The CDC has confirmed someone in Louisiana is now the first person in the United States with a ...

Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a viral infection that can cause flu in birds and sometimes spread to mammals, including humans. Migrating waterfowl (wild ducks, geese, and storks ...