America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

The CDC says the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

As the bird flu situation develops in the U.S., scientists told Newsweek the virus could become a pandemic--depending on what happens next. Right now, California is the epicenter of the outbreak ...