Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

After staff and funding cuts across the HHS, the FDA has suspended its quality control program for testing dairy products.

There was one death linked to a human infected with bird flu in Louisiana. An H5N1 avian influenza virus molecule. Ruslanas Baranauskas/Corona Borealis via Adobe Stock ABC News' medical ...

A 3-year-old girl from Durango, Mexico, has died from H5N1 Bird Flu, according to the World Health Organization. The child ...

The first known human death from bird flu occurred in January in Louisiana, according to the CDC. None of the 70 people infected to date were from New York. The state announced the immediate ...

A person who died of the bird flu in Louisiana in December illustrates that point: Scientific evidence suggests that bird flu viruses evolved inside the patient, gaining mutations that may make ...

A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of the virus, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's Health Ministry said ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...

In January, an elderly resident of Louisiana with underlying medical conditions became the first person to die of bird flu in the U.S. after being exposed to sick birds. The current outbreak of ...

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized ... with only one fatality — an elderly man in Louisiana with underlying medical conditions who had contact with ...

Bird flu's risk to the public remains low, health officials say, but fatalities have been recorded. One person in Louisiana died after being hospitalized with the virus, marking the first bird ...