In Rwanda, 11 deaths have been reported from this rare but deadly disease. Two people tested negative in Germany this week.
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had been hospitalized and was expected to make a full recovery, a spokeswoman said.
19 cases have been reported in Europe so far and the travellers had all been to the same two countries.
Almost two years after the first signs of bird flu in the United States, we are still flying blind. Indications that H5N1 may have jumped to...
A new study paints a complex picture of the outbreak, suggesting that the virus could be spreading in multiple ways and that it is not always...
It’s been about a century since viruses were recognized as causing devastating human diseases. Since then, scientists and public health experts have diligently tried to reduce...
Cases of a potentially deadly virus have been reported in Spain and Italy.
How worried you should be about H5N1, the bird flu virus spreading on dairy farms in the United States, depends on whom you are. The Centers...
There is no guarantee that a person-to-person virus would be benign, scientists say, and vaccines and treatments at hand may not be sufficient.
A dairy worker in Texas contracts H5N1 bird flu after contact with infected cows, and suffers eye inflammation. Weeks later, a dairy worker in Michigan begins...