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.

Health officials in Mexico say a 3-year-old girl from the western state of Durango is the country’s first confirmed human ...

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

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission and ...

One year ago, a human infection of bird flu was reported in Texas. One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in ...

The 114 commercial outbreaks in South Dakota have led to the death or intentional killing of more than 6 million turkeys, chickens and other birds.

Workers who are in frequent contact with potentially sick animals are at high risk of bird flu infection ... of stepwise invasion from animal to human populations. Like many emerging viruses ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, is caused by influenza A viruses. Flu viruses that infect humans and birds are both categorized by their H and N proteins, but avian influenza viruses infect birds as ...

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may eventually evolve the ability to infect a new species, such as humans ...