Researchers are comparing the genetic features of the B.C. patient's avian flu strain with that of a Louisiana patient who ...

The U.S. has experienced its first death from bird flu (H5N1). The death happened in a Louisiana patient who contracted H5N1 ...

Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...

Two people are sick in Oakland County and nine others are being monitored after they had contact with H5N1 bird flu from an ...

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...

Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...

A person in Louisiana exposed to bird flu by a backyard flock has died. This marks the first U.S. human death linked to H5N1 ...

The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be ...

Louisiana health officials said Monday that a patient hospitalized with severe avian flu died, marking the first H5N1 ...

An infectious disease expert says the relatively mild cases of avian influenza detected so far among dairy workers don’t ...

Experts say no bird flu vaccine is needed for humans yet, as mild cases among dairy workers don't warrant it. The current ...