A rapidly-spreading H5N1 avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, has been devastating bird flocks and showing signs of ...

A human case of bird flu has recently been detected in England. This news comes just days after restrictions were put in place to curb the virus's spread among wild birds and poultry in England and ...

Flu activity remains high across the U.S., with nearly the entire country experiencing significant illness levels amid a ...

Testing results from patients indicate that two strains of seasonal flu that are causing most illnesses -- a Type A H1N1 and ...

Testing results from patients indicate that two strains of seasonal flu that are causing most illnesses — a Type A H1N1 and a Type A H3N2 ... flu known as Type A H5N1 — that has sickened ...

Pasteurization is the only widely recognized method of killing H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu, in milk. However, ...

The H5N1 strain is the biggest concern right now. It’s similar to human flu viruses like H1N1 and H3N2, but it rarely infects people and has not been shown to spread from person to person.

While certain subtypes of influenza A — A(H1N1) and A(H3N2) — are common in humans ... for testing for potential H5N1 infection. "The Centre asked us to conduct surveillance for avian flu ...

Its alert to doctors and hospitals follows a few rare but mysterious bird flu cases in the US – including, most recently, a child in San Francisco confirmed to have had H5N1 influenza – that ...