Local turkey farmers are on high alert after a highly pathogenic avian influenza infected commercial flocks in three Minnesota counties. The most recent outbreak affected a flock of more than ...

Early Tuesday, the Senate passed a bill, House File 2225, allocating funds on an emergency basis to address the avian influenza crisis we are experiencing throughout our Minnesota turkey farms.

A man in Mexico has died in what the World Health Organization (WHO) has said is the first lab-confirmed human infection with the H5N2 strain of bird flu. The 59-year-old Mexico City resident ...

WHO has confirmed the first death from a new kind of bird flu never before seen affecting the human body. This has yet again sent chills down the spine of the medical fraternity. WHO confirms first ...

Symptoms of avian flu include fever, cough, sore throat and sometimes severe respiratory diseases and pneumonia.

“While the threat of avian influenza to the general population ... reported the first known case of a human case of influenza H5N2, which was fatal, although the infected man had underlying ...

We talked to experts about where the science is on risks to humans and how the virus is messing with the food supply.

Federal health officials say a dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the ...

H5N1 bird flu is branching out. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that a second type of ...

Before future studies would uncover a link between Nipah outbreaks and the felling of native forests for the purposes of ...

Manufacturers of raw dog and cat food must do a better job detecting bird flu in products sold to pet owners, federal regulators announced Friday. Several cats, wild and domestic, in the U.S. have ...

As cases of bird flu continue to climb among wild birds, poultry and cattle in the U.S., the virus poses an increasing threat to human health. A total of 67 human cases of the H5N1 virus have been ...