Public health officials have warned that new mutations of bird flu with human flu could have dangerous consequences.

A Canadian teen's severe bird flu infection has highlighted growing concerns about the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu ...

The agency says it is looking for red flags, but the risk to the public still remains low. Meanwhile, a Louisiana patient with a severe case of bird flu showed worrying mutations in the samples ...

Hundreds of thousands of people will gather at the Pennsylvania Farm Show beginning later this week — a potential breeding ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...

First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first ...

Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the ...

a disease surveillance specialist in the Boston area, wondered how many other mysterious infections had gone undetected. Surveillance outside of farms was even patchier than on them, and bird flu ...

The government said the changes would help manage potential bird disease outbreaks, such as avian influenza and Newcastle disease, and help limit the spread. Given the large fines and custodial ...

In Canada, avian influenza is a national reportable disease when it occurs in poultry. Outbreaks in domestic birds occur now and again, as happened in British Columbia and Ontario in 2015 and Nova ...

California declaring a public health emergency over bird flu, which hospitalized a British Columbia teenager for weeks. A fourth case of chronic wasting disease among deer. Tens of thousands of ...

Lyme disease and rabies. Bird flu — the H5N1 influenza strain — is a virus that wild birds like ducks and geese occasionally get sick with. The Lower Mainland sits smack dab in the middle of ...