The H5N1 avian influenza virus is mutating to evade immune defenses in mammals following prior infection or vaccination.

Birds in the United States can be affected by avian flu, also called H5N1 bird flu or avian influenza. But can it affect your ...

As the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak continues, scientists are working to better understand the virus's threat to human ...

Here’s what is known about food safety amid the bird flu outbreak. Will I catch bird flu from eating chicken or eggs? No, the risk of catching bird flu from eating chicken or eggs is presently very ...

Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (also known as bird flu) have created a need for rapid and sensitive detection methods to mitigate its spread. Now, researchers have developed a ...

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...