Medical experts advise that people should get a vaccine for the bird flu when it becomes commercially available. One doctor ...

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The patient, who was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, was hospitalized weeks ago in critical condition ...

The hospitalized teen was also given three antiviral treatments, underscoring how severe H5N1 infection can be ...

Health officials have said the person was older than 65, had underlying medical problems and had been in contact with sick ...

The recent deaths of about 200 snow geese in the Lehigh Valley have raised concerns about the harm avian influenza could cause to wild and domestic birds throughout the region. As wildlife and ...

Health officials have said the person was older than 65, had underlying medical problems and had been in contact with sick ...

The first human bird flu death was reported out of Louisiana on Monday, Jan. 6. The same case was the first serious case of H5N1 in humans in the U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains that the virus that sickened the Louisiana patient matched a ...

The strain is spreading among US dairy cows, and has infected dozens of people, mainly US farm workers. Read more at ...

The U.S. has experienced its first death from bird flu (H5N1). The death happened in a Louisiana patient who contracted H5N1 after being exposed to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and ...