The first human to have ever been infected with H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials confirmed late Friday.

The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it’s not clear if it will be as bad as last winter’s. But some health experts are ...

But bird flu is on the rise in the U.S. again. The recent jump in cases might hike the price of your Thanksgiving, but it won’t make dinner unsafe. Cooking poultry to 165°F kills the virus. Plus, ...

The mutated strain, known as subclade K, is causing a surge in cases in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Japan. Here's what to ...

How can we monitor the cross-species transmission of avian flu? The answer is FluWarning, a digital system that reports ...

One person had died from the disease. In early January, a backyard flock keeper hospitalized with bird flu in Louisiana ...

The United States may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year ...

A new strain of influenza A, called H3N2, has caused a spike in infections in other countries, including areas of the ...

With a new flu virus variant circulating, scientists fear more sickness this winter. The vaccine may be slightly less ...

Out on his farm in Dundee Township, Cliff McConville sees geese landing in the fields where his turkeys and chickens graze.

The public health doctor says that while poultry farms must house their flocks ahead of Christmas, transmission to humans is ...

A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer; it appears to evade some of our immunity; has kick-started a flu season ...