Songbirds are much less likely than waterfowl to contract variants of avian influenza and less likely to shed large amounts of virus, meaning they do not transmit the disease easily. (For detailed ...

In other developments, a Chinese research team that studied experimental infections involving different inoculation routes and resulting transmission in dairy cattle found that mouth-to-teat ...

Farm workers facing possible arrest would likely resist getting tested for bird flu should there be a resurgence this fall, ...

Scientists have known for more than a year that bird flu, H5N1, made the jump from wild birds and common poultry to cows and ...