When it comes to the growing potential for a bird flu outbreak, the key question is whether the new Trump administration has ...

Early this month, the state health department announced that a person in Louisiana died from the bird flu, also known as H5N1.

The first case of bird flu was confirmed in New Orleans last week after the H5N1 virus was detected in a house cat on Jan. 14, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.  The ...

Yolo County officials confirmed on Thursday the presence of the highly contagious bird flu known as H5N1 in a backyard poultry flock.

Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.

A number of bird flu cases have been reported in the Chicago area in recent weeks, leading to many questions about how quickly the virus is spreading and how worried residents should be.

A commercial poultry farm on Long Island, New York, is being forced to kill thousands of ducks after health officials detected cases of bird flu. The owner of Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue — about ...

The public has been asked to monitor bird deaths and sickness in Massachusetts in an effort to combat the bird flu.

A Long Island farm will reportedly euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after a bird flu outbreak transpired at the eastern New ...

Nearly 100,000 ducks will be killed at Long Island’s last major commercial duck farm after bird flu was detected at the Suffolk County facility. Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has played host to ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...

When a pathogen — any organism that causes a disease — jumps species, scientists get nervous because its genetic makeup can ...