Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Recent testing has detected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in mammal species in six Texas counties, state wildlife ...

After staff and funding cuts across the HHS, the FDA has suspended its quality control program for testing dairy products.

A person who died of the bird flu in Louisiana in December illustrates that point: Scientific evidence suggests that bird flu viruses evolved inside the patient, gaining mutations that may make ...

Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or ...

The first known human death from bird flu occurred in January in Louisiana, according to the CDC. None of the 70 people infected to date were from New York. The state announced the immediate ...

So far, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed a staggering 41 outbreaks this year that struck down entire egg-laying flocks in Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...