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

There are more than 60 cases of bird flu in humans across the United States. In the Commonwealth, two birds at the Metro Richmond Zoo caught the virus.

Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can help us keep better tabs on the virus: sewage. While wastewater already ...

Experts stressed that the new strain did not itself appear to be an immediate human threat. But the rise of a new strain is ...

A team of chemists and microbiologists at Michigan State University has found that an all-optical method can be used to ...

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

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.

Scientists are concerned about the mutations happening in the H5N1 virus — more commonly known as bird flu. This week, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control warned that new mutations ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...

An outdoor kitten exposed to wild waterfowl near a wildlife refuge in Washington County, Ore., recently tested positive for ...