H5N1 avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 ...

A new CDC study suggests that cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans working with dairy cows may be ... [+] significantly under-reported. A new CDC report has revealed that 7% of dairy workers tested ...

A teenager in British Columbia, Canada, has contracted the H5 strain of bird flu, marking the country's first confirmed human case. Health officials are investigating the source of the infection ...

Federal officials said Thursday that farmworkers exposed to bird flu should be tested for the virus even if they are not showing any symptoms, especially if they were not wearing the proper ...

Health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday called for more testing of people on farms who have contracted bird flu. The federal agency updated its ...

When the US Department of Agriculture announced that the H5N1 bird flu had turned up in a pig, I dropped what I was doing to read it. The situation didn’t quite match the nightmare scenario some ...

A new study revealed that 7% of workers on dairy farms with infected cows contracted bird flu, suggesting potential underreporting of human cases. The CDC now recommends testing all workers on ...

Canada has confirmed its first human case of bird flu after a teenager tested positive for the virus, according to health authorities. The teenager, from the western province of British Columbia ...

Seven percent of tested workers on dairy farms where cows were infected with bird flu caught the virus themselves, according to a new study. The study proved that more workers were catching bird ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to spread and cause severe symptoms in other mammals. H5N1 bird flu is ...

OTTAWA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the western province of British Columbia, health officials said on Saturday.

OTTAWA - Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the western province of British Columbia, health officials said on Saturday. The teenager likely ...