Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different ...

Moderna had been awarded over $750 million to develop a vaccine against bird flu, which has been circulating in farm animals ...

Over the past 15 months, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 70 human cases of bird flu across ...

Scientists warn that bird flu infections in household pets could create new pathway for human transmission after cases spiked ...

Australia is "surrounded" by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea ... oblivious to the impending threat. The killer virus that infiltrated Earth's most remote ecosystem ...

The federal government should be investing and working to expand the nation’s scientific and public health arsenal, not shrinking it.

As the only laboratory in the Northeast authorized by the USDA to test for bird flu, the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory on the University of Connecticut campus, is helping play a ...

When it comes to tracking and managing bird flu, cats infected with the virus are falling under the radar. Scientists […] ...

Brazil is still analyzing new suspected cases of bird flu on commercial poultry farms, raising concerns the deadly virus may be spreading in the world’s largest chicken exporter. The suspected ...

Wildlife officials are keeping a close eye on the spread of avian influenza after nearly 300 birds were found dead along the North Carolina coast earlier this year — most of them ...

A deadly virus has been identified in UK mosquitoes for the first time. West Nile virus, which mainly spreads to people ...