That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

Bird flu seems to be ramping up — the US announced its first human death this week, and the highly contagious virus has spread to all 50 states. With more than 130 million birds and nearly 1,000 ...

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.

Although a candidate bird flu vaccine has not yet been made commercially available, medical experts advise that people should get it once it is. Dr. Linda Yancey, an expert in infectious ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

At the height of annual flu season, U.S. health officials on Thursday said clinicians should more quickly ensure people who are ill don't have bird flu. While the risk to the general public ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that a person has died of H5N1 bird flu in the United States. The person was previously hospitalized with severe avian influenza A ...

IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE A POTENTIAL OUTBREAK ON YOUR HANDS. After months of more mild cases, the bird flu appears to be ramping up: The U.S. just saw its first death from the virus, and cases have ...

A San Francisco resident is the second child in the United States to contract the viral bird flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to SFGATE. A CDC spokesperson ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At the same time, recent CDC data shows that seasonal influenza A is rising ...

A case of the bird flu (also known avian flu or H5N1) involving gamebirds has been confirmed in Spartanburg. The virus was first detected on Dec. 31 and has not been transmitted elsewhere in the ...