There have been dozens of confirmed human cases of bird flu in the U.S. this year. Experts discuss the symptoms, risks and ...

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday. The teen has been ...

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.

The World Health Organization voiced alarm at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate. Hong Kong should test for ...

Health officials began providing the safety gear long before the first human case in California was announced in October.

The bird flu has been spreading rapidly among cows on a handful of dairy farms in California, Idaho and Utah. The virus, also ...

New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

Here’s what we know about the bird flu — and what it would take for it to start spreading in humans. In January 2022, health ...

If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...

Swine can act as so-called “mixing vessels” for human and bird flus, giving avian viruses an opportunity to adapt for spreading in people.

But finding bird flu in a pig raises worries that the virus may be hitting a stepping stone to becoming a bigger threat to people, said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Brown University pandemic researcher.