The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

At the height of annual flu season, U.S. health officials on Thursday said clinicians should more quickly ensure people who are ill don't have bird flu. While the risk to the general public ...

The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan. 6 - and the illness continues to spread. In a Jan. 6 news release ...

The first human bird flu death was reported out of Louisiana on Monday, Jan. 6. The same case was the first serious case of H5N1 in humans in the U.S. The Louisiana Department of Health said in a ...

A case of the bird flu (also known avian flu or H5N1) involving gamebirds has been confirmed in Spartanburg. The virus was first detected on Dec. 31 and has not been transmitted elsewhere in the ...

As the flu spreads, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging hospitals to test patients hospitalized with influenza A for H5N1 (bird flu) as soon as ...

Manufacturers of raw dog and cat food must do a better job detecting bird flu in products sold to pet owners, federal regulators announced Friday. Several cats, wild and domestic, in the U.S. have ...

Bird flu cases are rising in U.S. states, with the first death reported this week in Louisiana. The spread of avian influenza (HPAI) has also impacted the nationwide supply of poultry products ...

or bird flu, according to a statement from zoo officials on Wednesday. It also announced that its bird house would be closed for an undetermined period of time to protect the other animals.