H5N1, or bird flu, has been spreading among farm animals, wild birds and other animals and has infected 31 people, mostly farmworkers, in the U.S. After the Missouri patient fell ill, several ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes A Missouri resident who shared a home with a patient hospitalized with bird flu in August was also infected with the virus, federal officials reported on ...

Avian influenza H5N1 infection in humans has spread to seven U.S. states, growing from 46 cases last week to 52 cases this week.

Bird flu H5N1 has infected people in the U.S. See the map of cases. Could it trigger the next pandemic? Experts explain the ...

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread wildly among California dairy herds and farmworkers, federal health officials on Thursday offered some relatively good news about Missouri: The wily avian ...

Reports this week of a teen in British Columbia who tested positive for H5 avian influenza has renewed attention on the virus ...

Stat reports there's no evidence that the teen has infected anyone else. The source of the infection has not been determined. Meanwhile, Hawaii — which has strict agricultural rules to prevent the ...

It's not clear how the British Columbia teenager picked up the virus, which has been detected recently in wild birds and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday confirmed Oregon’s first case of a human contracting bird flu, ...

NBC Universal, Inc. The bird flu virus hasn’t yet spread from person to person, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in American dairy herds and poultry flocks, Canadian officials have announced ...