"It’s not a good situation." Drinking or accidentally inhaling raw milk containing bird flu virus may lead to illness, California health officials warn. So can touching your face after touching ...

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The first human in Wyoming to contract the bird flu was infected after the virus devastated her backyard chicken flock. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images “Unfortunately, this patient’s ...

A genetic analysis suggested that the bird flu virus had mutated within the patient, potentially leading to the more severe illness. 'I couldn't speak or breathe for days,' Chinese HMPV patient ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

Virologists around the world are raising warning flags about the spread of the avian flu virus H5N1, which affects birds, animals and humans. The bird flu, which has decimated poultry in the ...

A citizen-science collaboration in New York has turned up a half-dozen birds infected with the avian flu virus. By Apoorva ... But New York City has many green spaces and bodies of water used ...

Federal disease trackers reported Tuesday that the first child diagnosed with bird flu in an ongoing U.S. outbreak was infected with a virus strain closely related to one moving rapidly through ...

May 24 (Reuters) - Feeding raw milk contaminated with bird flu to mice infected them with the virus, adding to evidence that consumption of unpasteurized milk is not safe for humans, according to ...

The bird flu virus isolated from a girl ... in our respiratory tract a little bit better." Image: Dr Erik Karlsson says 'spillovers' of the virus is a 'concern' He said the mutations were unlikely ...