"We're afraid this virus could cause a human pandemic because humans have very little immunity against this particular avian flu virus," Scott Hensley, a leading bird flu researcher at the ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

(GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Avian flu, mad cow disease, hantavirus, black plague and other notorious ailments originated with animals and made the jump to humans. Now scientists at Washington ...

As bird flu continues to sweep through poultry farms, United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is proposing a ...

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may eventually evolve the ability to infect a new species, such as humans ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread ... are farmed and so interact closely with humans, increasing the threat of transmission ...

It added that the risk to humans ... flu has infected a sheep in Britain in what the government on Monday described as the first case of its kind reported anywhere in the world. While avian ...

We know that bird flu has been causing issues with chickens and waterfowl but do turkey hunters need to keep an eye out this spring season?

Two University of B.C. researchers have found that Canada is the slowest country at reporting H5N1 avian flu data to a global ... not just for humans, but also for animals," he said.