Public health officials have warned that new mutations of bird flu with human flu could have dangerous consequences.
Most human cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, a fact that’s underscored by a new study of the first 46 ...
A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe ...
The virus has spread among dairy cattle, humans and other mammals. But officials say the current public health risk is low.
The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Follow Newsweek's live blog for ...
Public concern over bird flu ratcheted up this week as the H5N1 virus continued its sweep through the nation's dairy and poultry farms and the first American was hospitalized with a severe infection.
A person in Louisiana contracted the nation's first serious human case of avian influenza, or bird flu, and was admitted to the hospital in recent days, according to the Centers for Disease ...