Medical experts advise that people should get a vaccine for the bird flu when it becomes commercially available. One doctor ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Each detection was “so low that it was not considered a positive result,” adding that “the consistent very low-level ...

In its announcement this week of the first human death from bird flu in the United States, health officials in Louisiana were ...

The Hawaii Department of Health today said it has detected “very low levels” of H5 avian influenza in wastewater samples collected last month from the Lihue Wastewater Treatment Plant on Kauai.

H5N1 - has led to the first known casualty. While there is no known cure, the CDC does recommend methods to protect yourself.

The patient, who was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, was hospitalized weeks ago in critical condition ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday it will award $306 million in additional funding to monitor ...

A person in Louisiana who was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu has died.

Sick or crippled critters keep coming, often faster than the cash to cure them.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains that the virus that sickened the Louisiana patient matched a ...

A handful of cats in the United States have been found dead due to avian influenza, a viral disease that historically only ...