The virus was reported in a commercial flock of ducks. It’s the first time the subtype has been detected in the United States.

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers ...

British poultry farmers are urgently calling on the government to permit vaccination of their flocks as bird flu continues to ...

The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

Public health officials are closely monitoring the latest bird flu outbreak that has sickened or killed millions of birds, chicken and cattle in the U.S. The virus, also known as avian influenza or ...

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 ...

In today’s Health Alert, a new strain of bird flu - H5N9 - has been detected in the U.S. The first confirmed case was found ...

This latest outbreak is part of a broader epizootic that has swept across the United States, affecting not only poultry but ...

Bird flu, or Avian influenza, is a virus that is spread from infected cows, birds and other animals to people.

Although cases of bird flu are surging among birds in the UK, the risk of the virus spreading to humans still remains ...