According to the CDC, Bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses that usually spread between birds, not people. Most human cases of bird flu in the U.S. have been mild so far, ...

As cases of H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu, continue to surface across the U.S., safety precautions are ramping up. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

The Arizona Department of Agriculture, working closely with the USDA detected a strain of avian influenza in milk in Maricopa ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

The CDC is monitoring the recent HPAI outbreak and reports it is not an immediate public health concern for people. ... “Past outbreaks of avian flu have generally waned by early summer,” he says.

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

The CDC reminds the public that poultry and eggs should always be cooked to an internal temperature of 165 degrees in order to kill bacteria and viruses, including avian influenza A viruses.

CDC to post waste data amid bird flu outbreak As bird flu spreads among cows in the U.S., the CDC plans to publicly post data on a specific influenza virus found in wastewater. Dr.

South Africa is grappling with a resurgence of the H5N1 bird flu, following outbreaks on poultry farms in Tswaing and Mkhondo ...

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...