Can your pet get bird flu? Is it safe if your neighbor has backyard chickens? We're answering reader questions about avian influenza.

Avian influenza, or “bird flu,” is a disease caused by influenza A viruses that spread widely among wild birds, and can cause outbreaks in commercial and backyard poultry flocks. Though there ...

A new study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that bird flu has silently spread from ...

CDC finds H5 bird flu antibodies in 3 veterinary practitioners, highlighting need for enhanced surveillance and safety protocols.

There have been no confirmed cases of transmission of bird flu from human to human. Public health agencies want to keep it ...

UC Davis researchers have found that acidification can kill H5N1 in waste milk, providing dairy farmers an affordable, ...

Blood testing of large-animal veterinarians suggests that H5N1 bird flu has spread more widely than US surveillance of the virus is capturing, according to a new study by federal and state disease ...

Avian influenza (AI) continues to kill large numbers of migratory birds in eastern Pennsylvania as state officials have looked to slow the virus through organized shooting efforts. The Game ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows with several recent human ...

Cennimo, an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, spoke to Rutgers Today about what ...