Scientists have warned H5N1 bird flu could make a dangerous leap to humans, triggering a global health crisis.

A new international study has found that the H5N1 avian flu virus is gradually becoming better adapted to infect cattle. This ...

Bird flu, particularly H5N1, is spreading through animals, raising pandemic concerns. While human infections are rare and ...

Simulation finds quarantining is most effective in controlling human spread as long as it is done when number of infected ...

Bird flu could be the next pandemic It’s one of the worst nightmares facing epidemiologists: that the virus could escape ...

Bird flu resists fever’s heat; a viral gene enables replication at high temperatures, bypassing immune defences.

Following the first human death from the H5N5 strain of bird flu, experts are warning the virus, of which a number of strains ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at avian flu. Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and ...

FOR years, scientists have warned that bird flu could one day spill over from birds to humans, triggering a global health ...

H3N2 virus, which made its first jump to humans in 1968 through antigenic shift with avian strains, has evolved over the ...

ABERDEEN, Wash. (KATU) — A Washington state resident has died from complications related to the H5N5 avian influenza, marking the first recorded human infection with this variant globally. The ...