What you need to know about bird flu. Public health experts are closely watching avian influenza, which has affected chickens ...

Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. It can range from mild ...

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

Researchers have a new hope for preventing severe illness from the bird flu after finding a groundbreaking antibody treatment ...

A version of the avian influenza virus different from the one rampaging through herds since last spring has been detected in ...

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with ...

Does it feel like you know a lot of people fighting the flu virus this winter? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu activity remains high and continues to increase around the ...

Pasteurization at 63°C and 72°C effectively inactivates influenza A viruses in milk, ensuring its safety for human ...

Bird flu has decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds. The risk to humans is currently low, but that could easily ...

While flu viruses are detected year-round in the U.S., the virus activity usually peaks between December and February. Flu ...

The finding indicates that the virus, known as H5N1, has spilled from birds into cows at least twice — leading to these two ...

Researchers have stressed that bird flu still poses a minimal risk to the general public, though that may change as the virus ...