People have been hearing a lot about H5N1 bird flu — or highly pathogenic avian influenza — since a B.C. teen became the ...

Poultry on a commercial farm in England have been infected with the bird flu virus, the U.K. government said Sunday. The H5N1 virus was found in kept birds in St. Ives, a seaside town in Cornwall. All ...

Blood tests have shown that about 7 per cent of workers on dairy farms that had H5N1 outbreaks had antibodies against the ...

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

The health agency now urges proactive testing and treatment for the virus among any workers who were exposed to H5N1.

USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.

A person has tested positive in British Columbia, Canadian health officials said, though the results must be sent to another ...

A new study found that a small but not insignificant number of bird flu infections are going undetected among farm workers ...

Most of those found with H5N1 said they’d had red, itchy eyes with drainage. But four of the eight who were infected didn’t ...

A bird flu outbreak has been confirmed in commercial ... virus - H5N1 - while in the Hornsea outbreak, the H5N5 strain was found to be present. The virus - which affects poultry and wild birds ...