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

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

With help from Cameron Whitehead, Pete & Gerry’s COO, we’ve identified and busted five bird flu myths to help you make an ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Bird flu has devastated poultry ... can carry the virus with few symptoms because "these viruses co-evolved in waterfowl," Richards said. Ducks can shed the virus in their feces or saliva ...

open image in gallery H5N1 is displaying a common pattern of stepwise invasion from animal to human populations When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted ... especially ...

And the leap from birds to humans is not easily made ... In her experiments, ferrets earlier exposed to the 2009 H1N1 swine flu were protected from the worst symptoms and death when later exposed to ...

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High Plains.

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.