Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...

Seasonal influenza vaccines triggered protective immune responses against the H5N1 avian influenza virus primarily in younger ...

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

The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about another pandemic, yet the overall risk to the ...

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

Bobbi Pritt, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic, has opened up about conditions required for ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...

A researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital said the bird flu virus needs to be taken seriously so it doesn’t become the ...

Eggs are in short supply in California and high priced due to bird flu, laws, high labor and supply costs, and increased ...

A recent bird flu death has sparked fears that a "brand-new virus" could potentially mutate under the right conditions and ...

At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the ...