New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

Cases of influenza A virus in wastewater has sparked concerns of bird flu spreading via cows. The Department of Agriculture ...

New research has revealed that even asymptomatic people carry the avian flu virus, suggesting that infections among dairy ...

The new strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus, discovered by a dairy worker on a farm in Texas, is said to be deadly for ...

A highly contagious and deadly form of avian influenza is spreading ... two years because of the massive appearance of various bird flu viruses in Europe,” said a spokeswoman for the Friedrich ...

It takes three to five days to develop symptoms. The H5N1 strain is the most deadly type of the bird flu virus with 50 per cent of victims dying. Chickens may die without showing any symptoms but ...

An avian flu infection has been confirmed in a backyard, non-commercial flock of birds in southwest Santa Rosa, raising alarm ...

was expected to cause the next deadly pandemic. Also known as bird flu, avian flu, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) or H5N1 (for the identity of two of its genes), this virus has ...

For the first time, a bird flu infection has been detected in a pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reporting ...

Some antiviral drugs demonstrate high effectiveness against bovine H5N1. A recent study published in Nature reports that a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, isolated from the eye of ...

The flu can turn deadly in combination with bacterial pneumonia ... Meanwhile, a new vaccine against the avian flu virus, made by the pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur, has proved effective ...