The case concerned health officials and experts because human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza ...

Four agricultural workers in Washington state were recently diagnosed with avian influenza A (H5N1). The cases mark the first ...

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention confirmed two human cases of avian influenza in Washington on Thursday following ...

As migratory birds return this fall, they bring heightened risks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), which has ...

The Washington State Department of Health says neither person has experienced severe illness or been hospitalized.

Officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said serologic testing has ruled out H5 avian ...

The Washington State Department of Health announced Thursday morning that two people tested positive for bird flu after an ...

A Clackamas County commercial poultry farm in Oregon has been affected by a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, but the birds were euthanized to prevent the spread of the disease and the ...

Four farm workers who helped cull poultry on an commercial egg farm in Washington are presumed to have been infected with bird flu, making that state the sixth in the country to report human H5N1 ...

Change clothes and wash hands thoroughly after handling your birds, and regularly disinfect surfaces and equipment. Limit ...

Before joining the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Burke was a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ...

Amid many seasonal diseases, viruses and the spread of bacteria, the US is also coping up with the bird flu outbreak with as ...