Q: What is avian influenza? Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is a viral infection that primarily affects birds but ...

A genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu virus—a mutation associated with increased infectiousness and disease severity—has ...

Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection against H5N1, and children would benefit more from H5N1 vaccines.

Three birds were discovered dead in the waters of Ned Dimes Marina at Compo Beach and the nearby Longshore Golf Course, a ...

The ongoing bird flu outbreak has led to wild bird deaths, slaughtered livestock, and hazardous conditions for dairy industry ...

Photo taken on July 30, 2020 shows the sunrise scenery on Nanji Island in Wenzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province.

Living on a picturesque island, with a view of the vast sea and accompanied by the sound of waves and birdsong, He ...

Maria Peterson, an assistant professor of animal science at the University of Rhode Island, joined 12 News at 4 to talk about how avian flu spreads and how the virus is affecting both our animals ...

The discovery of silent H5N1 infections in unexpected populations, the emergence of new variants, and its potential to evolve ...

Where does our avian flu epidemic come from? Commercial, large-scale poultry farming and migrating birds squeezed into ...

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 ...

Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife ...