Although the avian flu (H5N1) virus may not be making the news as frequently, it is still working hard behind the scenes, ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

Cambodia's Ministry of Health recently confirmed the country's twelfth human case of H5N1 avian influenza so far this year.

“The average bird flu virus is not very good at all at sticking to the cells in our mucous membrane, which is what it needs to cause a human infection,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. CNN values your feedback 1.

Until recently, all detections of bird flu in dairy herds in the U.S. had involved a form of the virus known as B3.13, while D.1.1 had been limited to migratory birds and poultry birds.

Amid an outbreak of avian influenza, aka bird flu, that has spread to cows in nine states and one person in Texas, federal regulators have detected traces of the bird flu virus in pasteurized milk ...

A t least 58 people in the U.S. have been infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus this year, according to federal statistics.All but two of them had been around cows or chickens, two species in which ...

The avian influenza A(H5N1) virus has recently infected herds of dairy cows in several states, including Texas, Kansas and Michigan.Herds in New Mexico and Idaho are presumed infected, officials said.

“This virus [has been] on the top of the pandemic list for many, many years and probably decades,” said Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi, a bird flu researcher from Pittsburgh, according to the Daily Mail.

The bird flu virus is responsible for an ongoing outbreak in dairy cows in the United States. Since March, it has been detected in cows in 11 states, and in wastewater from several others.

Bird flu should no longer be considered solely an avian virus due to the growing spread of the disease in mammals, a leading expert has said. The world’s first-ever case of bird flu in sheep was ...