Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an ...

One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker. There have ...

For example, Cobey's study measured antibodies that bind to a particular part of a protein that covers the surface of seasonal flu virus in humans and bird flu. Hemagglutinin, or the HA protein ...

But even if cases rise, bird flu is unlikely to be the next serious pandemic because the risk of human contamination is very low. Jeremy Eschliman, executive director at Two Rivers Public Health ...

At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It’s a sign that ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund research projects that explore the highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry, ...