A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S.

Lithuania has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, on a laying hen farm ...

The CDC and MDH are advising health care providers to order further laboratory testing on positive influenza A specimens ...

Bird flu infections around the U.S. have forced mass cullings and resulted in the deaths of zoo animals and pets ...

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of Pittsburgh and NIH Vaccine Research Center researchers report today in ...

San Francisco confirmed that a child in the city became the first case of H5N1. A panel of biotech leaders discussed what ...

Growing concerns over pet food safety A surge in H5N1 virus cases among pets, particularly cats, has raised alarms about raw ...

Researchers at Texas Biomed have identified nine mutations in a strain of bird flu found in a person in Texas. Bad news: This ...

Doctors should use infection control measures if a hospitalized patient has suspected, probable, or confirmed H5N1, putting the patient in an airborne infection isolation room with negative pressure, ...

H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., with different variants of that virus spreading in wild birds, poultry flocks, dairy cattle ...

The first human death caused by H5N1 in the U.S. was reported in Louisiana on Jan. 6. Here's what to know about bird flu.