Public health experts share concerns that the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could turn into a pandemic. What to know after Louisiana ...

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the U.S. Here's what you need to know about the current situation.

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is widespread in wild birds worldwide ... The first reported death from bird flu in the U.S. was a patient in Louisiana who had been exposed to infected sick and ...

Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...

It was a first for cows last March when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the highly pathogenic avian ... Louisiana—scientists are concerned that as more people are exposed to bird ...

Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but the recent appearance in mammals of the potentially dangerous avian influenza A strain, H5N1 — the bird flu virus — demands redoubling ...

A person in Louisiana has contracted the nation's first ... case in India – a 4-year-old who was infected with the H9N2 avian flu virus. A bird flu outbreak is affecting several dairy herds ...

Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death was recorded in Louisiana ... and current situation. Bird flu in the U.S. Bird flu, or avian influenza, is an infectious ...