There is currently no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved avian influenza vaccine for pediatric patients in the national vaccine stockpile. In a study performed across 13 countries comprising ...

The study is unique in detecting the first flu-related death of a bobcat in the state and documenting the presence of antibodies to avian flu in this feline population. Avian influenza was found in 16 ...

The avian flu is more common in certain areas of the globe, especially Asia, and risk increases if you have recently traveled to a country that is experiencing bird flu. Among people who contract bird ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, has been detected on commercial farms in California and other parts of the U.S. The most recent outbreak of the highly transmissible strain of bird flu ...

In this interview with Asha Shah, MD, director of infectious diseases and epidemiologist at Stamford Hospital, we examines the evolution and transmission dynamics of H5N1 avian influenza ...

As cases of H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu, continue to surface across the U.S., safety precautions are ramping up. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

The two strains of avian flu that have killed the most people are H5N1 and H7N9. The first human cases of H5N1 were detected in China in 1997, but the bulk of cases came between 2003 and 2015 ...

The U.N. health agency confirmed that a suspected case, a 4-year-old child in the eastern state of West Bengal, was infected with the H9N2 avian flu virus. India's first human avian flu case was ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to actively monitor the ongoing outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, and says that the public health risk remains low.

Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is caused by influenza Type A viruses that occur naturally among different bird species. Like human influenza viruses, avian influenza contains two ...

Avian influenza continues to spread worldwide. UC Davis scientists are helping to monitor its expansion among wildlife, poultry and other species. In early April, Marcela Uhart, director of the Latin ...