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

Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts to prevent and detect bird flu infections among farmworkers, ...

The most common way to detect bird flu involves swabbing potentially contaminated sites and sequencing the DNA that’s been ...

A source says USDA employees who worked on bird flu response have accepted incentives to leave the agency, which could strain ...

A recent study has revealed that a single genetic change in a strain of the highly pathogenic H5 influenza virus could potentially unlock its ability to infect and spread between humans. Scientists ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...

The Trump Administration's zeal for rounding up and deporting those migrants is making efforts to combat bird flu harder as those workers now avoid outsiders.

It was a first for cows last March when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the highly pathogenic avian flu virus ...

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed 130 cases of H5N1 avian influenza in domestic cats spread across 23 states, ...