H5N1, known as bird flu, has been detected in a backyard poultry flock in San Mateo County, the California Department of Food ...

The discovery of bird flu in the San Mateo backyard flock prompted health officials to remind people to take biosecurity ...

UC San Francisco's Rais Vohra, MD, explains recent increase in reported virus infections and the risks of consuming raw cow’s milk.

While it's tragic and alarming to see a massive die-off, it's not uncommon for birds that travel in such large populations.

A federal scientific publication has returned from a forced two-week hiatus with two papers examining the health effects of ...

The perfect boiled egg has a velvety yolk paired with a soft, solid white. This image provided by researchers in February ...

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Experts stressed that the new strain did not itself appear to be an immediate human threat. But the rise of a new strain is troubling and points to the risk of a viral phenomenon known as ...

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

The virus was reported in a commercial flock of ducks. It’s the first time the subtype has been detected in the United States ...