Flu hospitalizations and doctor visits are at a 15-year high. Why is this flu season so bad? Doctors discuss influenza trends ...

Bill Stamets was on one of his regular early evening walks along 57th Street beach earlier this month when he came across a handful of dead birds clumped together near ...

The findings suggest that cases in people and animals in other states have yet to be identified, the authors say.

The first death from bird flu occurred in Louisiana at the beginning of January, and the victim "was over the age of 65 and ... disease can carry a high mortality in humans, though that is rare ...

According to the CDC, Bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses that usually spread between birds, not people. Most human cases of bird flu in the U.S. have been mild so far ...

H5N1 virus that primarily causes bird flu, has a high potential for severe respiratory infection as well as high mortality, with over 50 per cent among around 1,000 human cases worldwide.

H5N9 is a rare strain of avian influenza. H5N1 is the more common strain of the bird flu and has been responsible for most of the reported human cases ... And while mortality rates with bird ...

AQUEBOGUE, N.Y. -- A major bird flu outbreak ... that could make humans more vulnerable. "COVID has .5% morbidity, whereas avian influenza has a 50% morbidity rate. So god forbid this mutates ...