The administration is committing an additional $306 million toward battling the virus, and will distribute the money before ...

Public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe bird flu cases in two North American patients.

The administration said it was committing $306 million toward improving hospital preparedness, early-stage research on ...

Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu ...

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different ...

A virologist explains that why this probably isn’t the big one — but that it’s a sign of bad things happening with the virus.

A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator.

In 2024, at least 66 human cases of bird flu have been reported in the United States, each one raising the risk of another ...

Genetic analysis of H5N1 bird flu virus that infected a Canadian teenager shows 'worrisome' mutations, new studies reveal.

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus.

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

In a positive finding, the CDC emphasized that there is no evidence the virus has spread from the Louisiana patient to others ...