File photo of ducks on a farm at Gironde in southwestern France. (Esperanza33/iStock/Getty Images) The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu ...

Earlier this week, the United States reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California. The strain that has caused most damage in recent years has been H5N1. H5N9 is ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of bird flu, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's Health Ministry said ...

The new nasal vaccine only needs one dose and produces reliable immunity right at the site where the virus enters the body.

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Knowable Magazine answers questions about how dangerous bird flu is, where it came from, and what key events paved the way ...

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An international team of researchers led by Professor Huaijun Zhou from the UC Davis Department of Animal Science has created ...

Mexico has detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday.

Mexico on Tuesday logged its first human death from H5N1 avian influenza, a three-year-old girl in the northern state of ...

The bird flu outbreak, which has been detected statewide in animals including ducks, geese, squirrels, foxes, raccoons and bobcats, now also is being found in household cats in New York ...