Maryland state and local surveillance of the bird flu has been increasing in recent days after preliminary testing of a ...

At a time when North American bird populations are declining dramatically, the number of people watching them is increasing.

Moderna surged as investors turned eyed potential demand for a vaccine to protect against bird flu after the US reported its ...

There is still a danger, however: a person in Louisiana recently became the first person in the country to die from H5N1. Louisiana health officials said the patient was over the age of 65 and had ...

The patient in Louisiana was older than 65 and was reported to have had underlying medical conditions, health officials said.

H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.

As concerns over avian influenza have grown after a Louisiana man died from it earlier this week, there have been calls to ...

We’re monitoring the situation very, very closely. We’ve never seen this many infections of non-bird species as we have in the U.S.," Johns Hopkins virologist Andrew Pekosz said.

The U.S. has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu, in a person from Louisiana who contracted the virus from ...

A new case of bird flu has been confirmed in a backyard flock in Clinton County. This marks the first case of bird flu in the ...

Sick or crippled critters keep coming, often faster than the cash to cure them.