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

Soon afterward, the first patient got sick with new symptoms ... avian flu at a commercial turkey farm in California. The ...

The mandatory testing comes as the total number of infected herds in California has risen to 17. Nationally, officials have ...

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

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

It is not inevitable that H5N1 will develop into a pandemic -- if we act now. Unfortunately, instead of urgent action, we ...

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

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

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 study out of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found that high-pathogenicity avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H5N1 ...

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

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