Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human ...

The deadly bird flu virus, H5N1, has been detected in the wastewater of 10 Texas cities, signaling a silent spread that could ...

Just how deadly is the H5N1 avian flu? The virus, which is currently sweeping through U.S. dairy herds, rarely jumps to human ...

The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.

On Monday state officials announced they had completed testing on all 95 licensed farms in Massachusetts that have dairy ...

An extensive look at wastewater samples taken across the United States from May to July found traces of the H5N1 bird flu ...

News that a person in Missouri contracted H5 bird flu despite ... And this with a dangerous flu virus that scientists have long feared could someday trigger a pandemic. After all, the 2009 H1N1 ...

A person sickened by bird flu in Missouri was probably an isolated case, federal health officials said Thursday, though they ...

A close contact of the person in Missouri who had an unexplained H5N1 bird flu infection ... infections with flu viruses that don’t circulate in people raise the specter of pandemic influenza ...

A week after an unusual human case of H5 avian influenza was reported in Missouri, many questions remain. The latest on what's known -- and not known -- about the case, and why scientists are worried.

To aid efforts to identify the source and promote efforts to mitigate the next flu pandemic, we suggest expanded, agnostic sequencing of wastewater, livestock and their products, exposed ...

A household contact of a Missouri patient who contracted bird flu also became ill on the same ... director of the pandemic center at Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, R.I ...