In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery stores. The escalating threat of avian flu has forced farmers to kill millions of chickens to ...

Dr. Prather noted that the virus has been detected in hunting dogs after they have chased down birds, though dogs do not seem to be affected in the same way as cats and other birds. However, he ...

As bird flu continues to spread across the United States, questions have emerged about the risk of contracting the virus from ...

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the ...

Cases in avian influenza, better known as bird flu, are continuing to rise nationwide. In New York, the virus has primarily affected geese and raptors. But with one human ...

Across the Pacific Ocean, federal authorities have discovered a worrying change in the worsening bird flu outbreak. A second ...

A branch of the H5N1 bird flu family tree that hadn't previously been seen in cattle has now been detected in dairy cows.

Until last week, all bird flu in dairy herds had been identified as the B3.13 variant, which was believed to have come from ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

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

Consumers can safely drink pasteurized milk, despite reports of dairy cattle infected with the new strain of bird flu.