The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S. While the agency maintains that the milk is ...

There have been an estimated 110,000 flu-related hospitalizations since flu season began, according to the CDC's latest report. There have only been 67 human cases of bird flu.

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle ...

Public health officials are continuing to monitor as an outbreak of avian flu, also known as bird flu, continues to spread across the country. The strain, known as H5N1, has sickened several ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground. Birds are kept in disgusting, crowded conditions that encourage viral spread.

Data from Tanguingui Island in the Philippines suggest that H5N2 virus was present in wild birds as early as two years before the country’s first confirmed outbreak in backyard ducks in November ...

The mortality from bird flu ranges from 75% to 100% in chickens and turkeys. Ducks appear to be somewhat more resistant, but this resistance means they are often asymptomatic carriers, spreading the ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground. Birds are kept in disgusting, crowded conditions that encourage viral spread.

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground. Birds are kept in disgusting, crowded conditions that encourage viral spread.