“In Asia, people buy live birds at markets where they are plucked. The plucking has been shown to aerosolize virus from the ...

While the virus hasn’t made a sustained leap into humans, vaccines and treatments are being developed ahead of an outbreak.

The escalating bird flu crisis is ravaging the nation's egg supply, and that shortage has hit Arizona along with the rest of ...

A Massachusetts biopharma giant is at the center of preparations already underway if bird flu mutates and begins to find ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

Bird flu has had a nationwide effect causing harm to the poultry and domestic animals but it also has been posing a risk to human health. While the health risk is low, people have been cautioned.

All nine macaques given the control developed severe disease when exposed to bird flu, as did all given the smallest dose of ...

"This type of prevention can be very useful in controlling infection outbreaks and containing the bird flu pandemic," said an immunologist.

The US Department of HHS is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu.

People who work with livestock are at the greatest risk of bird flu. To stop the disease's spread, it's critical that they participate in testing programs and wear masks and gloves when advised. “For ...

The number of bird flu cases in Central Massachusetts is relatively low, compared to a swath of the state that runs from ...