Birds and humans have different types of receptors in their respiratory tract that flu viruses attach to, like a lock ...

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

In New Orleans, a Loyola University professor has been creating original art out of glow-in-the-dark fish gut bacteria, enough to fill 1000 Petri dishes. Her first major foray into art was ...

Bird flu appears to be rising in the U.S., but only among people exposed to infected animals — namely, cows and poultry.Since ...

If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...

Oregon state and federal officials are investigating positive H5N1 bird flu cases at a farm after the virus was detected in a ...

Bird flu has infected three more people from Washington state after they were exposed to poultry that tested positive for the ...

At least eight eastern Washington farm workers have tested positive for the bird flu after being in close contact with sick poultry.

A pig infected with bird flu in Oregon has raised concerns about the virus’s potential to threaten humans, but the current ...

In this week's edition of Petri Dish, a Boston cancer biotech is on the hunt for a new CFO, a startup has signed a deal ahead of its IPO and a cancer drug developer raised $175 million. Kailera ...

Before you start imagining petri-dish poultry and test-tube T-bones in Tesco ... hormones and the environmental risks of ...

As the planet warms and disease-carrying animals like mosquitos follow their ideal temperatures northward and into higher altitudes, they may bring diseases such as West Nile virus to areas where they ...