In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery stores. The escalating threat of avian flu has forced farmers to kill millions of chickens to prevent its spread.

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

UC San Francisco's Rais Vohra, MD, explains recent increase in reported virus infections and the risks of consuming raw cow’s milk.

The last time the CDC was able to tell us the number of human cases of bird flu in the US, the number stood at 67. That was ...

Consumers can safely drink pasteurized milk, despite reports of dairy cattle infected with the new strain of bird flu.

When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, picking up mutations that might lead t ...

President Trump has selected Gerald Parker, a veterinarian and former top-ranking federal health official, to head ...

Hi, I’m Dr. Robin Miller of HealthDay.  Today, we’re going to talk bird flu – the increasing numbers, the newest mutation, whether it’s a threat to humans ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resumed publishing its weekly scientific report Thursday after an ...

Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the ...

With the devastating 1918 pandemic in mind, US health officials saw an outbreak in Asia and swung into action. What happened ...