Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...
Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...
Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...
Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...
The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...
At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the ...
The first person in the U.S. just died from a strain of the virus in Louisiana, but there’s still some simple ways to stay ...
Multiple state agencies, as well as the Little Rock Zoo, are continuing to monitor the spread of the avian flu in Arkansas.
A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...
An elderly man in the US state of Louisiana died on Monday of bird flu - contracted from exposure to sick and dead chickens ...
An elderly man in the US state of Louisiana died on Monday of bird flu contracted from exposure to sick and dead chickens in ...
With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...