The recent bird flu outbreak is being regarded as the ... The girl, who has mild asthma and is obese, went to one emergency room Nov. 4 and was sent home without treatment but developed a cough ...

Meanwhile, bird flu has appeared in animals across the ... Children born to women who are obese have a higher risk of landing in a hospital with a severe infection, a new study says.

From worries about food safety to egg prices, Americans have questions about the bird flu. This strain of bird flu, also known as H5N1, is not entirely new. It's been detected in a variety of bird ...

Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has ...

To date this year, 61 human cases of H5N1 bird flu have been confirmed in the ... risk of becoming seriously ill from flu include being obese, having asthma or chronic lung disease, having ...

So far, 70 human cases have been confirmed, according to the CDC. Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected.

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a broad term that refers to several types of influenza that normally infect birds. The bird flu that’s been making news in the United States is a virus called H5N1.

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Scientists have been keeping an eye on bird flu ever since it was first discovered nearly 30 years ago. Experts have long recognized that the H5N1 virus that causes the disease has pandemic ...

The latest figures reveal the country’s current outbreak of bird flu is showing no signs of slowing down as more cases and hospitalizations are being reported, raising concerns over the ...

"It's hard not to feel like a proud parent seeing them out there thriving and making history," London Zoo bird keeper Charlotte James said Jonny Shepherd/TNC-ZSL; TNC-ZSL The once-extinct Sihek ...

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