Health officials on Wednesday confirmed the first known severe illness in the U.S. caused by bird flu, and California's governor declared a state of emergency as the virus rampages through dairy ...

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A research team from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, has reported progress in the development of ...

The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy farmworker is capable of airborne transmission, amping up concerns about its potential to spark a new pandemic, according to a research letter ...

Health experts say that humans are at low risk of transmission; however in January, a Louisiana man became the first person in the United States to die of avian influenza, after he had been in contact ...