Local hospitals are now being urged by the CDC to be on the lookout for avian influenza among patients. When children are ...

Scientists are concerned that bird flu may eventually mutate so that it can readily spread among people – something it cannot ...

Ohio is leading the nation with bird flu cases in poultry. What does this mean for egg prices, and can you raise your own ...

The fear of another pandemic has resulted in the culling of millions of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and now ostriches. But some ...

The humble egg, one of nature’s perfect foods, a self-packaged, relatively inexpensive source of protein that can serve as a ...

A strain of bird flu known to infect humans, H5N1, has been confirmed in recent outbreaks across Scotland and England. The ...

H5N1 was first identified as an avian flu strain that could infect humans in 1997 and has since claimed hundreds of lives.

Avian or bird flu is a respiratory disease that spreads ... or more severe illness such as pneumonia and organ failure that can lead to death. So far, N.C. has had no reported cases of human ...

The first two cases of bird flu on the University of Massachusetts campus were discovered over the weekend of Jan. 18-19 when ...