A person in Texas has been diagnosed with the H5N1, or bird flu after direct contact with dairy cows, health officials said Monday. It’s the first case in the U.S. of highly pathogenic avian ...

Dairies say the USDA relief money helped them sustain operations as bird flu decimated milk production, but critics say the ...

Scientists have known for more than a year that bird flu, H5N1, made the jump from wild birds and common poultry to cows and ...

Texas reported its first human case of the novel avian influenza (also known as the bird flu) on Monday, April 1. The positive case comes less than a week after the person came in contact with a ...

According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, most of the recent bird flu cases were in upper Gulf Coast counties. Anderson said the virus often coincides with the wild bird migration patterns throughout ...

Bird flu isn’t as silent as we think — experts caution the pandemic threat is still growing It's been months since a major update in H5N1 news, but that doesn't mean the virus has disappeared ...

Bird flu viruses are divided into two categories: low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) and highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

The bird flu was first flagged as a threat to humans in 1997 during an outbreak in Hong Kong, which saw 18 people infected, six of whom died, according to the National Institutes of Health.