Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens ...

H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the ...

In today’s Health Alert, a new strain of bird flu - H5N9 - has been detected in the U.S. The first confirmed case was found ...

As more cases of bird flu emerge across the country, public health leaders in New York City are watching warily -- and making ...

Is it seasonal flu or bird flu? CDC prompts hospitals to fast-track subtype testing of sick patients to tell the difference.

What we need is to shift to a system that tells us what’s happening in the moment. That is what we are doing today,” Shah ...

The first person has died of bird flu in the United States, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed on Monday. The ...

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

They also said a genetic analysis had suggested the bird flu virus had mutated inside the patient, which could have led to the more severe illness. Since March, 66 confirmed bird flu infections ...

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

The risk to the general public remains low, authorities said, after someone was infected with bird flu while in close contact ...