Bird flu

... bird flu, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday. The death comes after Mexican health officials previously confirmed a case of the H5N2 bird flu strain in the patient, who had been hospitalized in Mexico City. The case is the first among ...

Professor Sir Peter Horby, Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford, said: “Any human infection with a novel animal influenza ...

Scientists are on alert for signs the virus is adapting to spread more easily among humans, after the WHO announced the death from April.

The first confirmed human case of a strain of bird flu called H5N2 has died, the World Health Organization said. Here's what to know.

The infection, the world's first laboratory-confirmed human case of the H5N2 bird flu variant, comes as the United States battles outbreaks of a different ...

Although the strain H5N2 had earlier been detected in poultry in Mexico, the source from which the patient contracted the fatal infection is not known, ...

Michigan is requiring more biosecurity measures on farms because of an outbreak of bird flu in dairy herds.

The emergence of respiratory symptoms is disconcerting because it indicates a potential shift in how the virus affects humans. FILE- In this Aug. 10, 2015, file ...

A 59-year-old male resident of Mexico died after being infected with a bird flu subtype never before confirmed to have spread to humans, the World Health ...

As of June 4, there have been three confirmed cases in dairy workers who contracted the virus, but no person-to-person spread has been detected.

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man contracted the virus from sick cows ...

It was the first confirmed human case of a strain known as H5N2, which differs from the variety driving cases in U.S. cattle.