The U.S. has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu, in a person from Louisiana who contracted the virus from ...

A patient in Louisiana has died of bird flu. Health authorities considered the case to be the first severe H5N1 infection in ...

Health experts told Newsweek about the threats posed by the viruses and shared the best ways to protect oneself.

The first severe human case of bird flu was recently reported in the U.S. Here are some ways the U.S. may be repeating the ...

Nationally, 17 million birds have been exposed to avian flu, but Kansas health officials said the risk to the general public remains low.

The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states. Now at least ...

Cook would drive west to San Francisco, where he and his wife, Donna, lived the other half of the year. Come April, he’d return, as would the birds. “I like being back here with the eagles,” he said.

The HPAI H5N1 virus has spread globally, infecting birds, mammals, and some humans. Most human cases are mild.

An estimated 200 snow geese discovered in parts of the Lehigh Valley are suspected by the Pennsylvania Game Commission to have died from bird flu. Test results are awaiting confirmation by the ...

Avian influenza has spread far beyond the nation's birds, infecting all manner of creatures from zoo animals, wild mammals, ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...

First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first ...