The first human death from H5N1 in the United States is an event of historical significance, laying bare the destructive ...

The Delaware Department of Agriculture announced Friday morning a commercial broiler flock in Kent County has tested ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United ...

First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first full moon in May to mate and lay their eggs. The birds soon follow.

“We kind of have our head in the sand about how widespread this is from the zoonotic standpoint, from the animal-to-human ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper leaves his job next week after eight years. It’s a span in which the southern Democrat picked his moments against a Republican-dominated ...

(CNN) — The California Department of Food and Agriculture has issued a statewide recall of raw milk produced and packaged by Valley Milk Simply Bottled after H5N1 bird flu virus was found in ...

Just hours after the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the first severe case of bird flu in the United States on Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a state ...

Partial viral genome data of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that infected the patient in Louisiana indicates the virus belongs to a genotype related to viruses recently detected in wild birds and ...

International human and animal health experts warn the H5N1 avian influenza is evolving quickly and posing a global health threat as the virus is increasingly crossing species barriers and ...

Influenza A (H5N1/bird flu) virus particles (round and rod-shaped; red and yellow). Creative composition and colorization/effects by NIAID; transmission electron micrograph imagery is courtesy CDC.