The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

Blood testing of large-animal veterinarians suggests that H5N1 bird flu has spread more widely than US surveillance of the ...

This colorized electron microscope image released by the NIAID shows avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles, shown in yellow, grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells, shown in blue.

Its alert to doctors and hospitals follows a few rare but mysterious bird flu cases in the US – including, most recently, a child in San Francisco confirmed to have had H5N1 influenza – that ...

This came as no surprise to Mindy Brashears who served as USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety ... get into the meat or the food supply.” If H5N1 is ever detected in beef cattle that meat ...

Health officials have confirmed the presence of H5N1 (bird flu) in a backyard poultry flock in San Mateo County. The county said that while there are no current human cases of bird ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 67 confirmed human cases of H5N1 bird flu ...

Poultry can still be exhibited and sold in unaffected counties with biosecurity measures in place. The department may extend its suspension of activities to other counties if additional bird flu cases ...