New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) suggests that many people already have immune cells on "stand by" to fight the H5N1 virus, also known as highly pathogenic ...

A legal aid group that represents farm workers is suing the state agriculture department claiming it is not sharing the ...

Ireland reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a turkey farm in the eastern part of the country, the ...

Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and ...

WASHINGTON — Testing conducted by the Food and Drug Administration on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday. But ...

Migratory birds are spreading the deadly H5N1 disease again, forcing German, Danish and Dutch farms to kill poultry stock. US ...

A study in ferrets — which have remarkably similar respiratory systems to humans — suggests that widespread immunity to H1N1 seasonal influenza virus may explain why exposure to H5N1 bird flu causes ...

A teenager in British Columbia is in critical condition after being exposed to H5N1 bird flu. The source of the virus has not been determined. The teen is the first presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu ...

The findings, published in CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases, come from an analysis of samples from farms in Kansas and Texas taken in mid-March. They suggest cow-to-cow transmission of H5N1, and ...

There have 873 human H5N1 cases since 2003, but an estimated 53 percent have been fatal. True to its name, avian flu symptoms are flu-like, which means high fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, ...

A third case of bird flu has been confirmed in North Yorkshire. The virus was discovered at a commercial poultry site near ...