A Brooklyn kitten has been identified as the second confirmed feline victim of avian flu in New York City — having contracted ...

Another chicken flock tests positive for bird flu in Mississippi. What are the risks? How do I know if I have it? What you ...

Other animals infected with avian influenza viruses may have viruses present in respiratory secretions, different organs, blood, or in other body fluids, including animal milk. Human infections ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland are researching the science behind avian influenza, or bird flu. Dr. Andrew Broadbent, a researcher and professor at the University of Maryland, says the best ...

Officials are urging pet owners not to feed their pets raw food or raw milk and to avoid letting them roam outside.

need to be acquired by avian flu viruses for them to simply bind to receptors present on the surface of human respiratory organs. Additional mutations in the viral polymerase proteins, which make ...

where he’s been studying avian influenza viruses since they first ... of the confines of the respiratory tract, get into other organs and cause more systemic infections. So it has the capacity ...

According to FWP, pigeon paramyxovirus, or PPMV, "does not represent a substantial risk to humans or pets, but precautionary measures should still be taken to dispose of carcasses." ...

HYDERABAD: Human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1), commonly known ... acute respiratory distress syndrome, or multi-organ failure. The incubation period typically lasts three to five days ...

This is the third case of of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI ... can get the virus and spread it via breathing, in other organs and in bodily fluids like blood and milk.

A growing number of these and an unknowable population of free-roaming “community cats” have been contracting avian flu, or H5N1 ... tracts and other organ systems of cats, Sykes said ...