H5N1 avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 ...

If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

But it’s worrisome. Spreading through big pig farms would give the virus ample opportunity to evolve into a form capable of ...

The spectre of African Swine Fever (ASF) rose its head in Sarawak recently when one out of 17 samples of canned pork luncheon meat imported from China was found to contain the ASF DNA. While the ...

The presentation, so brief as to be little more than a public service announcement, signals an abandonment of efforts to ...

State health officials are investigating possible sources of the H5 avian influenza virus detected for the first time in a wastewater sample from Oahu. The Hawaii Department of Health said the ...

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be ...

avian influenza — also known as bird flu — is a virus that primarily affects birds but can occasionally spread to humans through contact with infected animals or contaminated environments.

Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in American dairy herds and poultry flocks, Canadian officials have announced that a ...