Genetic analysis of a bird flu virus detected in a person in Missouri who didn’t previously have contact with animals offers ...

Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human ...

An extensive look at wastewater samples taken across the United States from May to July found traces of the H5N1 bird flu ...

The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.

While the Missouri patient is only the 14th person in the US to contract the H5N1 Bird Flu this year, at least 196 herds of dairy cows in 14 states have confirmed outbreaks of the virus since the ...

A person in Missouri has been infected with bird flu despite having no immediate known exposure to possibly infected animals ...

Health officials say they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu, but they believe it may be a rare instance of a ...

A close contact of someone with bird flu became ill on the same day, the C.D.C. reported. But the second person was not ...

A person in Missouri with no reported exposure to animals was confirmed to have been infected with H5-type bird flu, the ...

A Missouri resident has tested positive for bird flu even though there is no evidence the person came into contact with an animal infected with the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

“But I’m a lot more worried about it than I was.” Bird flu’s threat to most people remains pretty low. Still, here’s what makes this case concerning to experts, and what you can do to ...

A person in Missouri with no known animal exposure was hospitalized with avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, and has since recovered, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...