Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

If you have a backyard birth feeder and bird bath, it’s a good idea to take them down. That’s according to the Texas Parks ...

A dead wild bird in Austin was reported to have had bird flu, according to Austin Public Health and the Texas Department of ...

Bird flu is a type of Influenza that primary affects birds,” says Richard Wallace, an Infectious Disease Health Expert at UT ...

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

Reports of the bird flu were detected in April in a farm in Texas. Since then, the dominant strain — H5N1 — was later detected in the first-confirmed human case in the United States. That person has ...

The CDC says the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus ...

It's been 10 years since the U.S. has built up a stockpile of bird flu vaccine for poultry. As the virus continues to ...