Fowl pox is mainly spread by biting or sucking insects and directly through contact with infected birds through broken skin, oral or respiratory routes. The causative virus is very resistant and ...

Within 24 to 48 hours of the first detection of the virus, state and federal animal health officials work with farms to cull ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens ...

More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the ...

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer variant of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including ...

1–3 The basis for the great difference in response to the same virus has not been established although there has been much speculation. The prevalent hypothesis 4 is that varicella is the usual ...

Latest data shows which counties have been hardest hit by bird flu outbreaks among poultry flocks as the human case count climbs.

The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a step closer to developing much-needed medicines.Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus ...

The H5N9 strain of avian influenza is much more rare than the H5N1 which has been responsible for most of the reported human cases and the first human death.

A child in California is presumed to have H5N1 bird flu, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Experts weigh in on the risk of a potential virus mutation.