A new bird flu mutation of H5N1 has been discovered in a patient in the US state of Louisiana. Public health officials are concerned the new strain may rapidly develop, increasing its ability to ...

Felines of all varieties tend to explore and hunt smaller prey, such as birds and mice, which can carry bird flu.

According to the CDC tracker, there have been 66 confirmed cases of bird flu reported in humans since the start of the ...

After the state of California began testing dairy herds for highly pathogenic avian influenza, known also as bird flu or H5N1 ...

The CDC warns samples of the bird flu virus show signs of mutations that could make it more transmissible to humans. The CDC ...

Here’s what to know about the United States’ first confirmed severe case of H5N1 avian influenza—and how to protect yourself.

Some pet owners feed their animals raw meat, but that can be dangerous, even fatal for the animals, said Michael Q. Bailey, ...

Growing concerns surrounding the transmission of H5N1 bird flu. The CDC reports that samples collected from a severely ill ...

The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, ...

There's a new concern that the virus could evolve to spread from human to human.

(CNN) — A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country’s first severe ...

The ongoing spread of bird flu in the United States has alarmed experts -- not just because of human cases causing severe ...