A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...

Officials are investigating the origin of the outbreak of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship that departed Argentina’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird flu has spread widely in poultry, causing egg shortages. Virus spillover has occurred in various mammal species, including ...

A scenic wildlife excursion may have set off a deadly chain of events aboard an expedition cruise now at the center of a ...

The first ever avian influenza vaccine recently started trials in the US. This marks a milestone in the prevention of bird ...

The H5N1 strain of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza continues to infect poultry in Arkansas and across the country.

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(CNN) — Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk to public health, according to a new study from researchers at ...

Maricopa County Department of Public health say they have detected "an influenza subtype associated with avian flu" in wastewater within the county. The A(H5) influenza subtype was found in wastewater ...

Avian influenza can jump species from birds to humans, a fact that arouses concern for serious illness and broader human ...