The holy grail of pandemic preparedness is being able to predict how a virus will evolve just by looking at its genetic ...

A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus.

The Louisiana patient was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu in the first death in the U.S. caused by the H5N1 virus.

A patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, has died, health officials said Monday.

The first human patient in the United States with a confirmed case of avian influenza has died, according to a press release ...

The CDC analyzed samples of the H5N1 virus that were collected from the patient, comparing its genomic sequences to those of infected dairy cows, wild birds, poultry and other animals, the agency ...

Samples from a hospitalized patient in Louisiana show changes that could make the H5N1 virus spread more easily between ...

HMPV primarily affects the upper and lower respiratory tracts and is particularly concerning for vulnerable groups.