A person has been infected with the H10N3 strain of bird flu in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday. The patient, a 41-year-old man, developed a fever and other ...

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Varying types of avian influenza, the bird flu virus, have been found in humans across the globe this year. Public health officials are paying close attention to the spread of bird flu after an ...

July 10 (Reuters) - Avian influenza, or bird flu, has public health officials on alert after an unprecedented spread in dairy cows in the United States this year. Four dairy workers have also tested ...

In a correspondence published in The Lancet Microbe (1), it was reported that H10N3 viruses exhibit multiple amino acid residues associated with adaptation in mammalian hosts. Both human-derived and ...

Two poultry workers in England have tested positive for bird flu, the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has announced. H5N1: bird flu in mammals stoking fears of human ‘spill-over’ The impact of ...

As avian influenza sweeps the nation — infecting more than 58.3 million poultry and 6,192 wild birds in the U.S. as of Wednesday, per the CDC — infectious disease experts are watching closely. Dr.

A 4-year-old boy in China has become the first human case of the H3N8 strain of bird flu, according to news reports. The boy, who lives in Henan province, was exposed to chickens and crows at his home ...

Dec. 30 (UPI) --German health officials said Thursday that Europe is experiencing a devastating avian bird flu outbreak affecting wild birds and poultry farms as humans continue to struggle with the ...

The first known H10 avian influenza virus (AIV) was isolated from chicken in Germany in 1949 and has undergone multiple reassortment events during decades of circulation. Many H10-subtype AIVs, ...

A man in China was hospitalized after contracting the H5N6 strain of avian flu, The New York Times reports, a reminder that SARS-CoV-2 isn't the only virus that can pose a threat to human health. The ...

Following the mass mortality of water birds at a natural park in Shaanxi, tests in China revealed the detection of the H5N8 HPAI virus variant for the first time in the province. According to the ...