America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

The death comes at a time when the H5N1 virus has recently undergone an unusual mutation that is causing concern to the World ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Many different species of wild birds can be infected with HPAI. Geese and other waterfowl are particularly susceptible to ...

The bird flu, also known as avian influenza and H5N1, was implicated in the first human death from the infectious disease on ...

The patient had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or H5N1, in Louisiana.

The U.S. has experienced its first death from bird flu (H5N1). The death happened in a Louisiana patient who contracted H5N1 after being exposed to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and ...

The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be ...

Ella Jeffries is an editorial intern with Smithsonian magazine. The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be mild, health e ...

A wastewater sample from the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission tested positive for H5 bird flu this week, according to WastewaterSCAN, a monitoring program based at Stanford University.

Concerns about the dangers of bird flu are growing Tuesday after the first reported death in Louisiana from the virus.