After two animals died of bird flu in Chicago, the Lincoln Park Zoo’s bird house will be closed for the near future.

Lincoln Park Zoo said the specific source of the exposure of the animals to bird flu, or H5N1 virus, is not known.

Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...

Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

Bird flu is being cited as the cause of the recent deaths of a Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo, the zoo ...

The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...

One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable ...

A harbor seal and a Chilean flamingo died from the bird flu this month at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, officials said.

The CDC has confirmed a positive bird flu case in a child in San Francisco, the second juvenile case of H5N1 in the country.

Chris Herr, executive vice president of PennAG, an agriculture trade organization, said these preventive measures are ...

Transmission has largely been documented in poultry. While hummingbirds are likely safe, bird feeders could attract infected ...