Scientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks The teenager ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has infected a patient in the first ever confirmed human case of the virus, caused by the H5N1 ...

The genetic sequence of the H5N1 bird flu virus that infected a teenager in British Columbia shows that the virus had undergone mutational changes that would make it easier for that version of H5N1 to ...

Symptoms began for the teen on November 2, including conjunctivitis, fever, and coughing. Following hospital admission on ...

There is an inherent conflict of interest -- and the potential for injury to public health -- when a federal department both ...

Officials suspect wild migrating birds are likely to blame for the first known infection of a flock in Hawaii, which had been the last state in the country with no reported cases in poultry or wild ...

A Canadian teenager has made history after falling ill with the virus despite having no contact with birds or any underlying ...

The H5N1 virus that infected a Canadian teen appears not to have spread, but it shows signs of mutation that makes flu ...

As H5N1 bird flu spreads among California dairy herds and southward-migrating birds, health officials announced Friday six ...