Wildlife rescuers are increasing measures to prevent the potential spread of the deadly bird flu strain H5N1, which is yet to arrive in Australia, as they respond to reports of thousands of dead ...

A new strain of bird flu has infected the rest of the world and could enter Australia at any moment. When it does, poultry ...

Agriculture Minister Julie Collins said the H5N1 strain of avian influenza "presents a real and significant threat to ...

People have been hearing a lot about H5N1 bird flu -- or highly pathogenic avian influenza -- since a B.C. teen became the ...

On Saturday, British Columbia health officials said the province had detected Canada's first human case of H5 bird flu in a ...

Authorities on the alert for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu have tested dead shearwaters, also known as muttonbirds, in ...

Horrified beachgoers are reporting thousands of migratory seabirds dead or starving on beaches from North Queensland to ...

Birds and humans have different types of receptors in their respiratory tract that flu viruses attach to, like a lock ...

The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird ...

As of now, 17 states have reported H5N1 bird flu cases in humans, but there is still no evidence for transmission between people and the infections have been mild. Could that change?

Avian influenza A(H5N1), commonly known as bird flu, is a viral disease that is typically transmitted between wild birds and poultry but can spread to ...