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.

As egg prices in the United States continue to rise, with no end in sight, the question remains: how will Canadian prices be affected by the bird flu?

Avian influenza, which recently reached a new alert level in the United States, is not just a health emergency, it’s an opportunity for deep reflection on our vulnerabilities.

Scientists found that a moderate dose of MEDI8852, an antibody therapy, effectively protected monkeys against severe H5N1 avian flu.

Scientists are concerned about the mutations happening in the H5N1 virus — more commonly known as bird flu. This week, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control warned that new mutations ...

A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of Pittsburgh and NIH Vaccine Research Center researchers report today in ...

"This type of prevention can be very useful in controlling infection outbreaks and containing the bird flu pandemic," said an immunologist.

The antibody targets a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and offer long-term protection against the globally spreading airborne infection.

If bird flu is lurking undetected on Minnesota’s dairy farms, the state is determined to find it. Starting in February, milk ...

A new strain of a highly pathogenic and rare strain of bird flu has been reported on a duck farm in central California.

To learn more about the recent bird flu outbreaks, we spoke with Asha Shah, MD, director of infectious diseases and ...