The agency says it is looking for red flags, but the risk to the public still remains low. Meanwhile, a Louisiana patient with a severe case of bird flu showed worrying mutations in the samples ...

The fate of a Canadian teenager who was infected with H5N1 bird flu in early November, and subsequently admitted to an intensive care unit, has finally been revealed: She has fully recovered. But ...

Will bird flu become the next COVID? Is it has dangerous as the coronavirus? Are viruses in bird flu also mutating? Read on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified mutations in bird flu infections in a hospitalized patient in ...

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In coming years, the bird flu may cost billions of dollars more in expenses and losses. Worse, the outbreak poses the threat ...

Most human cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, a fact that’s underscored by a new study of the first 46 ...

The CDC detected a change in the strain that would allow the virus to more easily travel through human airways.

So far, the H5N1 virus isn't transmitted between people — but the CDC has found a mutation in a human case "concerning" ...

All year, I’ve been keeping tabs on the H5N1 avian flu outbreak in dairy cattle and birds in the United States. As a ...

Bird flu cases are on the rise in the U.S., and the CDC is on high alert. With 66 confirmed human cases so far, officials are ...