New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

One year after the first human was infected with bird flu, ABC News' Dr. Darien Sutton meets Michigan State researchers who are tracking the virus and a duck farmer facing catastrophe in New York.

Though the current public health risk of H5N1 bird flu is low, the University of Florida (UF) is taking a proactive approach ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

Avian flu killed or led to the deaths of 470 domestic birds at a live bird market in Onondaga County in March, according to ...

Kimberly Dodd, dean of MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, jokes the lab has tested “everything that’s not human.” The increased spread of the latest strains of H5N1 avian flu are in part due to new ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its emergency response for bird flu as the outbreak that sickened ...