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 ...

Basic public health protections help augment our national security protections,” particularly when it comes to emerging ...

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

The bird flu virus found in a severely ill patient hospitalised in the United States has mutated to become better adapted to human airways, though there is no evidence it has spread beyond the ...

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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