British Columbia’s health ministry says the first suspected human case of avian influenza has been detected in Canada. A teenager in the province has tested positive for the virus — also called bird ...

A teen remains in hospital, being treated for what is believed to be avian influenza. Health officials have spent the weekend trying to figure out how the patient contracted the infection, and who ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, in humans is often thought to be contracted through close unprotected contact with infected ...

The number of H5N1 bird flu cases in dairy cattle workers in the U.S. may be much higher than reported, indicates a new CDC ...

A 2023 avian flu outbreak decimated a Caspian tern colony on Rat Island and spread to harbor seals, posing a new threat to local wildlife. A 2023 epidemiological study revealed that 56% of a large ...

British Columbia's Ministry of Health says the first suspected human case of bird flu contracted in Canada has been detected ...

New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to ...

A new study revealed more farmworkers had signs of infection, even though they reportedly did not display symptoms of illness.

France has stepped up its bird flu risk assessment to 'high' from 'moderate', it said on Friday in a decree that will trigger ...

That may be because avian influenza is infecting California cows that have already struggled through a very hot summer. Or perhaps California cattle are infected with a particularly virulent strain.