The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that the strain of bird flu currently circulating among dairy cattle appears to be only transmissible via mammary glands, or udders, rather than ...

The Texas dairy worker who caught bird flu from a sick cow in late March had none of the symptoms typically associated with influenza, including fever, coughing or sneezing. The only indication that ...

A new human bird-flu case identified in a Michigan dairy worker is the first in the U.S. to involve acute respiratory symptoms, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. This is ...

June 7 (Reuters) - U.S. federal and state agencies are planning research into potential respiratory spread of bird flu among dairy cattle, according to a Reuters interview with Michigan state ...

Dr. Bright is a virologist and the former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. The third human case of H5N1, reported on Thursday in a farmworker in Michigan who was ...

This infection, tied to an ongoing outbreak in cows, is the first in the U.S. to cause respiratory symptoms, but not the first H5N1 case in the world to do so. When you purchase through links on our ...

The patient was hospitalized in Louisiana, the health agency said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States. The ...

Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature. By Benjamin Mueller ...