Pigs are capable of harboring both human flu and bird flu, allowing the viruses to mix and match parts of their genetic ...

This is a pathogen that has loomed large in the minds of infectious disease experts for its potential to cause a deadly human ...

Widespread testing is essential to understanding the outbreak’s true scope — and to have any hope of containing it.

Bird flu likely circulated in U.S. dairy cows on a limited basis for about four months before federal officials confirmed the ...

Califf told senators that the “real worry is that it will jump to the human lungs where, when that has happened in other ...

In the past two years, more than 90 million poultry birds from 48 US states have died from the virus or were killed in an ...

While the bird flu virus risk to the general public is still very low, the threat is more significant for farm workers in ...

Federal health officials say the U.S. has the building blocks to make a vaccine to protect humans from bird flu, if needed.

The bird flu outbreak in US cattle has put governments on high alert ... professor of environmental health sciences at Minnesota university. One route would be via a reassortment: an exchange of ...

Raw milk, in the best of times, “is one of the one of the riskiest foods that we have,” said Benjamin Chapman, a professor ...

Japan has detected its first outbreak of bird flu for the 2021 winter season, with confirmation of a case of “highly pathogenic avian influenza” at a poultry farm in the northeast of the ...

Chile's Agriculture and Livestock Service Wednesday reported 1,030 bird deaths due to avian flu in northern regions of the country, at the same time Europe goes through the worst-ever outbreak of ...