After someone in southwest Louisiana was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu, the first such illness reported in the ...

Scientists believe the mutations may allow the virus to better bind to receptors in the upper airways of humans.

A new mutation and the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu discovered in a human in Louisiana has raised concern among some ...

Typically, flu activity starts to pick up around Halloween and peaks in February. This year, however, the virus got off to a ...

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Samples from a hospitalized patient in Louisiana show changes that could make the H5N1 virus spread more easily between ...

A surge in flu cases across Scotland has placed health services in the country under "acute pressure", Public Health Scotland ...

First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first ...

The US hasn’t learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird ...

The CDC's analysis revealed changes in the hemagglutinin (HA) gene, a critical component for the virus's ability to attach to ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday its analysis of samples from the first severe case of ...

After surviving a tumultuous 2023, farmers had hoped 2024 would be kinder and a bit more profitable. A year later, farmers ...