With cold and flu season approaching, it’s worth knowing about another virus out there—albeit extremely rare: bird flu. Like ...

Colorado's outbreak of avian flu in poultry and dairy cattle seems to have died down, though the state continues to monitor ...

For the past several years, millions of birds around the world have been killed or culled because of a highly pathogenic form ...

In other H5N1 developments, the FDA's vaccine advisory group said it will discuss the composition of H5 vaccines when it ...

Thus far, the outbreak is growing slowly, says Yale SOM’s Dr. Howard Forman. But a lack of coordination and testing continues ...

State and federal officials have identified new cases of avian influenza at three Central Valley dairies as the number of ...

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) "Practical interim guidance to reduce the risk of infection in people exposed to avian ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, refers to the disease caused by infection with Type A viruses. The Alabama Department of Public Health reports these viruses occur naturally among wild aquatic birds ...

A recent decision by USDA could pave the way for an H5N1 avian flu vaccine for dairy cows by as early as the first quarter of ...

Several labs will work with federal health authorities to develop a test for avian influenza, as the number of human cases ...

Avian flu in dairy cows could stick around on US farms forever, and is raising the risk of outbreaks in mammals—including ...

A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the ...