Last week, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) confirmed that a child in the city became the first case of Avian Influenza-Bird Flu (H5N1). With the Biotech Showcase ...

The agency also does not believe it is currently missing cases of H5N1 infection, he said. However, the changes come in the context of a recent case of H5N1 in a child in San Francisco who had ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza ... infected with H5N1 in the last year. On Friday, the San Francisco Department ...

While we often refer to it as "the flu," the influenza virus has several strains, with flu A and flu B considered the most ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the ... diagnosed with influenza, a recent study reports an ... Single Mutation in H5N1 Influenza Surface ...

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

As cases of bird flu continue to climb among wild birds, poultry and cattle in the U.S., the virus poses an increasing threat to human health. A total of 67 human cases of the H5N1 virus have been ...