A 65-year-old patient in Louisiana died after contracting the H5N1 strain of bird flu, with an expert warning that the virus ...

Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...

The highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, continues to spread on Delmarva with Queen Anne’s becoming the ...

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...