The announcement follows just days after the US Centres for Disease Control confirmed its first death from the zoonotic ...

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress stopped by Pocono Wildlife to see how this disease is impacting more than just snow geese.

Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Why the results surprised anyone is itself a surprise. After the state of California began testing dairy herds for highly ...

The first severe case of bird flu in the U.S. is showing signs of mutation, stoking fears that the virus could become ... cases of bird flu across the United States as of Friday, although the ...

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A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the illness in the United States. A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated ... t open the door.” The virus has been causing sporadic, mostly mild illnesses in people in the United States. Nearly all of those ...