NEW YORK -- A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu, a British Columbia ...

An island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, where half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed, is under threat ...

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.

New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

British Columbians are being urged to keep themselves and their pets away from any sick or dead birds, as the province ...

A new study revealed more farmworkers had signs of infection, even though they reportedly did not display symptoms of illness.

"We don't pick up birds without gloves, we wear gowns, and we use masks as precautionary measures," she said. The highly pathogenic avian influenza strain H5N1 is the deadliest strain of bird flu ...

USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.

Federal health officials are calling for more testing and treatment of workers on farms with bird flu Federal health ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, which has killed hundreds of millions of birds around the globe in recent years, has increasingly spread to mammals, raising concerns it may lead to human-to-human ...

were able to first identify H5N1 in the birds, but the tests in seals were harder to confirm. “We tend to think of avian influenza as a respiratory disease, but the seal respiratory samples were ...

The World Health Organization voiced alarm at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate. Hong Kong should test for ...