Efforts to contain the virus are falling short. A teenager in Canada is in critical condition after an unexplained infection.

Sheldon H. Jacobson Dr. Janet A. Jokela from the Carle Illinois College of Medicine write of increasing concern surrounding ...

To date, there's no evidence that people have been infected with the bird flu virus by drinking raw milk. At least 55 people in the U.S. are known to have been infected by the virus this year, but ...

How worried should we be about bird flu? The past few months have seen some potentially worrisome developments in the US, ...

Human cases in the US are on the rise and the virus is turning up in cows and dairy products. Luckily, we have some vaccines ...

We might be fine. Viruses don’t always manage to adapt to new species, despite all the opportunities. But if there is a bird ...

You may have encountered the term “ bird flu” increasingly online and in the media. It refers to a highly pathogenic avian ...

The World Health Organization on Thursday urged countries to step up surveillance for bird flu after the first case was ...

A World Health Organization official on Thursday called for stronger surveillance in animals for evidence of infection with ...

Just this weekend, the CDC confirmed a mild case in a child who had no known exposure to an infected animal. There have been several cases like this one over the past few months.

By the end of the day, avian flu had been discovered among some of those chickens. By the end of the week, four workers came ...

The developing avian influenza panzootic and the growing possibility of a pandemic bring to the fore the existential ...