Once primarily a disease affecting birds, the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus aka Bird Flu has recently been detected in cattle ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...

Lead researcher and CEO of POP Biotechnologies, Dr. Jonathan Lovell, is based at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Lovell said ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has discovered avian flu in several species of mammals, including skunks, foxes and ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and preventing a ...

Mexico City: A three-year-old girl has become Mexico's first human fatality from H5N1 bird flu, dying early Tuesday of multiple organ failure, health officials said. The girl from the northern ...

A 3-year-old girl in Mexico has died after getting the bird flu, in the country’s first confirmed human case of avian influenza, Mexican health authorities said. The health ministry said the ...

Mexico City: A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of bird flu, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's ...