As we all learned in 2020, it does not take long for a disease outbreak to turn into a full-blown pandemic. Zoonotic diseases ...

Bird flu has been rampaging through wildlife and farm animals worldwide. Will it make the long-feared jump to humans?

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year ...

Scientists have warned H5N1 bird flu could make a dangerous leap to humans, triggering a global health crisis.

Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu among poultry and dairy cattle across the United States, the country has recorded its first human death due the virus known as avian influenza A or H5N1. On Jan. 6 ...

The Grant County Health District (GCHD) has wrapped up its response to an avian influenza outbreak at a local poultry farm.

New research reveals why bird flu poses such an unusual danger to humans: it can keep multiplying even at temperatures that normally shut viruses down.

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the brink of human-to-human transmission, but predicting whether a virus will ...

Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention ...

A study conducted by Iowa State University researchers, in partnership with the National Animal Disease Center, suggests bird flu could spread among mammals through mammary glands as Iowa continues ...

Health officials confirm the first U.S. human case of avian influenza, also known as the bird flu, in Colorado Thursday, according to the CDC. The video featured is from a related report. The person ...