The prospect of an outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle triggering a pandemic in humans is one step closer than ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year ...

Portage County health officials advise people to use insect repellent and remove standing water to help protect themselves against mosquito bites.

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there was in the winter. Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but ...

Clark County, Wisconsin, has reported its first human case of West Nile virus for the year. The virus is spread by mosquito bites, not from person to person, and is most common in late summer. While ...

Wisconsin has seen 13 human cases of West Nile virus this year, according to the Department of Health Services.

The second case of West Nile virus was confirmed in a human this year in Massachusetts, the state health department said. A woman in her 60s in Essex County was exposed to the virus, the Massachusetts ...

The Global Virus Network, an organisation representing human and animal virologists from over 40 countries, have urged world governments to take action and be prepared against the H5N1 outbreak.

A bizarre, naturally occurring virus is giving wild rabbits a truly unsettling makeover — transforming their faces with horn-like or tentacle-shaped growths that have earned them the nickname “zombie ...

West Nile virus is spread to people through the bite of an infected mosquito and is not spread from person to person.

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there was in the winter. Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but ...