A major gathering of global biosecurity experts has been told about the fight against Disease X and efforts to contain bird ...

A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren't sure how ...

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

H5N1 avian flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in hogs in the ...

Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...

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

The Fraser Valley teen does not have any connection to poultry farms, where a highly pathogenic version of avian flu has ...

The teenager who is sick with the first-ever human case of avian influenza acquired in Canada is in hospital in critical ...

Human-to-human transmission is very rare, but as cases among animals rise, many experts are worried the virus could develop ...

The World Health Organization voiced alarm at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate. Hong Kong should test for ...

Although H5N1 causes symptoms similar to seasonal flu, such as cough, fever, shortness of breath, headache, muscle pain, sore ...