The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday urged clinicians and laboratories to test for the variant of ...

Cats in particular are at risk of contracting the bird flu virus, according to veterinarians at Mount Laurel Animal Hospital ...

After two animals died of bird flu in Chicago, the Lincoln Park Zoo’s bird house will be closed for the near future.

Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...

The virus impacts milk production and poses significant risks to other bird species, particularly domestic poultry as well as ...

Trump's pick for health secretary has a record of attacking vaccines. In fact he's even taken direct aim at bird flu shots.

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

Their deaths came within a day of each other, the Chicago zoo said in a Jan. 15 news release. Teal, a months-old Chilean ...

Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo announced the death of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo as a result of the Avian Influenza, a highly pathogenic disease in free-ranging waterfowls.

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

The sources of exposure are unclear, but officials said it was almost certainly from contact with an infected waterfowl.