Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

Suresh Mittal, Distinguished Professor of Virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, presented “Universal Influenza Vaccine — An Aspiration or Reality?” at the Westwood Lecture Series on Jan. 28.

Manufacturers of raw dog and cat food must do a better job detecting bird flu in products sold to pet owners, federal regulators announced Friday. Several cats, wild and domestic, in the U.S. have ...

A new bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza) outbreak has been discovered in California. The newly reported H5N9 strain ...

The government is investigating a rare strain of avian flu, H5N9, detected on a duck farm in central California, according to ...

The first positive HPAI case in Pennsylvania was found within a Lehigh County commercial layer chicken flock, according to ...

A new strain of a highly pathogenic and rare strain of bird flu has been reported on a duck farm in central California.

H5N9 is a rare subtype of the influenza A virus that can cause highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu. It's a reassortment strain that originated from the H5N1, H7N9, and ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, primarily affects birds but there have been cases reported in humans as well. Unfortunately, a ...

With confirmation of a new highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) farm outbreak an almost daily occurrence in Japan over the past few weeks, fears are being voiced about a looming egg shortage in ...

H5N1 first human death was reported in USA. Since then, health authorities have been monitoring and cases and shave sounded ...