With cold and flu season approaching, it’s worth knowing about another virus out there—albeit extremely rare: bird flu. Like ...

Avian flu in dairy cows could stick around on US farms forever, and is raising the risk of outbreaks in mammals—including ...

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man ...

The US reports its first bird flu (H5 avian influenza) case without known animal contact in a Missouri patient who has ...

An adult with underlying medical conditions was hospitalized on Aug. 22 and has since recovered, the Missouri health ...

Several labs will work with federal health authorities to develop a test for avian influenza, as the number of human cases ...

A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the ...

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Bird flu has killed millions of fowl and infected, even killed, hundreds of humans. But the jump to cattle has experts ...

A person in Missouri has been infected with bird flu despite having no immediate known exposure to possibly infected animals ...

In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first ...

Colorado’s outbreak of avian flu in poultry and dairy cattle seems to have died down, though the state continues to monitor farms for signs of the virus. That doesn’t include regularly testing farms’ ...