The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment ...

The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

Instead, the virus has infected more than 900 herds and dozens of people, killing one, and the outbreak shows no signs of abating. A human pandemic is not inevitable, even now, more than a dozen ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused ...

Bird flu poses an increasing pandemic threat as it becomes more adaptive, jumping to humans, pets and zoo animals, Europe’s disease and food agencies warned on Wednesday. They are urging countries to ...

They also point out that similar predictions were made about deaths during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009, when the eventual total was just 457. It announces that its existing vaccine ...

concerns were raised about the possibility of an avian flu pandemic. Although there is currently no evidence the virus can be transmitted from person to person, experts fear the virus has ...

Scientists have identified the Camp Hill virus, a henipavirus, in shrews in Alabama, marking its first detection in North ...