The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...

The first human death from bird flu in the United States occurred on Jan. 6 in a Louisiana hospital, less than three weeks before the second Donald Trump administration’s inauguration.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released an advisory recommending clinicians expedite subtyping of type ...

Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Salon H5N1 and other ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of the H5N1 subtype is presently among the ... The other cases are scattered across Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Texas ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...

If you are wondering what the different letters and numbers used to name influenza viruses mean, such as H1N1, H3N2, H5N1 ... virus, strain 05, discovered in Sydney, Australia in 1997, and a ...

This pathogenic avian influenza A is a subtype that is found in cows ... with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A, H5N1 virus that primarily causes bird flu, has a high potential for ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the ... of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating ...