H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first ...

The first person to contract H5N5 avian influenza, a rare strain of the disease known as bird flu, died in Washington state Friday. The state’s Department of Health said in a release the resident ...

Bird flu and another disease have shrunk the U.S. turkey population to a 40-year low this year. Wholesale turkey prices are ...

Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) yesterday urged people to avoid contact with poultry or wild birds when traveling abroad, in response to the first reported human death from ...

The United States has recorded the world’s first known human death from the H5N5 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, in ...

Although bird flu infections in humans remain rare, this case marks a significant development in flu surveillance in the U.S.

A Washington state resident dies from a bird flu strain that has never been detected in humans globally. But risks to public ...

David Quammen warned in 2012 that the next pandemic would begin after a coronavirus spills over into humans. Now, he has ...

A man in the United States has become the first person to contract H5N5 bird flu, a rare form of the disease which until now ...

A Washington man has tested positive for the first human case of the H5N5 bird flu strain, previously found in animals only.

Type A viruses are the most significant for human and animal health, and they are all descended from avian viruses. The flu A ...

Avian influenza virus cases tend to rise during the colder months, as is the case with human influenza. However, since 2020, ...