California public health officials recently discovered avian flu in a batch of raw whole milk being sold in California.

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

The developing avian influenza panzootic and the growing possibility of a pandemic bring to the fore the existential ...

"And the one we have right now is highly aggressive and especially extremely devastating to the poultry industry. It can kill ...

No one has caught bird flu from eating turkey. That’s probably because bird flu makes chickens and turkeys deathly ill within days, so outbreaks at poultry farms are quickly detected and contained.

The detection of bird flu virus this week in a batch of unpasteurized milk sold in California underscores what health experts ...

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 ...

We just can't catch a break, huh? Over the past few years, it's seemed like diseases we'd thought eradicated and those that ...

The vast majority of human cases of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. have resulted from direct contact with animals, so a few simple ...

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 year. As more human cases arise, there's deepening worry over whether the ...

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 ...