A Canadian teenager is currently in critical condition after contracting a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, a British ...

Viruses work by taking control of our cells and carefully reprogramming them into machines to make more viruses. Because of ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to spread and cause severe ... has not found any further cases in humans ...

“The less room we give this virus to run, the fewer chances it has to cause ... avian flu can be serious, says the California Department of Public Health. We don’t yet know if there are any ...

This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started ... with other viruses to cause the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

Blood tests found eight workers had been infected with bird flu, but only four of those workers recalled having symptoms. The most common symptom among those who had experienced any was red ...

The detection of H5N1 avian influenza ... that sparked the Spanish flu pandemic circulated in pigs for nearly a century before combining with other viruses to cause the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

Bird flu was detected ... The 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic had swine origins, Nuzzo noted. The USDA has conducted genetic tests on the farm’s poultry and has not seen any mutations that suggest ...

Seven percent of tested workers on dairy farms where cows were infected with bird flu caught the virus themselves ... the fewer chances it has to cause harm or to change,” Shah said.

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.