An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated ... genes found in the 1918 reconstructed flu are more similar to those found in avian flu viruses than those found in other mammalian flu ...

Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory helped detect highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy cattle a year ago.

One of those is Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), which is a very severe strain. Dr. Michelle Hawkins, VMD, Director of the California Raptor Center and Professor of Avian and Exotic ...

In the past two years, a disease-causing strain of avian flu, known as H5N1 or bird flu, has impacted 1,046 flocks across the ...