Federal health officials say that not only has a Louisiana resident contracted the first severe case of bird flu in the U.S., ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe ...

A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed ...

The CDC said that testing of a person with a severe case of bird flu indicated the virus had mutated but the risk remains low ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in the H5N1 bird flu virus that may increase ...

According to CDC officials, the patient was reportedly in close contact with sick and dead birds from a backyard flock on the patient's property. The virus was a version of the H5N1 bird flu that ...

However, the virus isn’t limited to birds. It can spread to other animals and to humans. The H5N1 bird flu isn’t new. The CDC says the virus was first identified in Southern China in domestic ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed the first case of "severe" avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, less than a month after a child in California was diagnosed with the virus.

More recently, the virus has also spilled over into dairy cows. Can people get a bird flu vaccination shot? According to the CDC, there isn't a flu shot that can prevent humans from getting ...

The CDC has paid for flu shots to protect farmworkers ... potentially allowing the bird flu virus to mutate and become more dangerous. The government also said that farmworkers who come in close ...