A rare case of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been confirmed in a child in the United States, according to ...

The term "bird flu" refers to a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A, classified as H5N1. Wild birds carry and transmit ...

Bird flu can also cause respiratory and classic flu-like symptoms, including cough, runny nose, fever, sore throat, body ...

In the 2009 swine flu pandemic, multiple reassortment events in pigs and birds led to the novel H1N1 virus strain, which led ...

H5 bird flu, a type of avian influenza, has infected dozens of people in the U.S., and spread to seven states and Canada this ...

In a press briefing on Nov. 7, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced its recommendation to test farmworkers who were exposed to animals infected with bird flu ...

Bird flu (H5N1) has been spreading across the country, among both animals and people, since April of this year. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to monitor the ...

((CDC/NIAID via AP)) And ... Hundreds of dairy herds have been infected with H5 bird flu in California and around the US. (REUTERS/Jim Vondruska/File Photo) Speculation has run rampant on social ...

CDC study finds bird flu antibodies in dairy workers, sparking new testing guidelines. New guidance recommends testing asymptomatic farmworkers to curb virus transmission. Experts warn of ...

LOS ANGELES - In a significant move, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new guidelines urging farms to test workers exposed to bird flu, even if they show no symptoms.

(KJCT) - The CDC recently conducted a dairy worker survey, collecting blood samples from 115 people in Michigan and Colorado who worked with cows with bird flu. Eight of those workers tested posit ...