Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...

Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...

The first person in the U.S. just died from a strain of the virus in Louisiana, but there’s still some simple ways to stay ...

As the first bird flu death in the U.S. sparks concern over the ongoing spread of the virus, epidemiologist and microbiologist Meghan Davis explains what to know and do ...

In its announcement this week of the first human death from bird flu in the United States, health officials in Louisiana were ...

“I don’t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.” To understand how the bird flu got out of hand, KFF Health News interviewed nearly 70 government ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are keeping a close eye on "red flags" relating to the bird flu and whether the illness might develop into a pandemic, according to a report.

We also know that avian influenza A viruses like H5N1 are unlike the average seasonal variety that circulate each winter. “They have the potential to cause a pandemic in people if they were to ...