A 19-year-old woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the Beijing Municipal Bureau and Hong Kong's government said on Tuesday. "The woman fell ill on Dec. 24, was hospitalised on Dec ...

China's health ministry has confirmed that a 19-year-old woman died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. China recorded three bird flu cases ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus continues to devastate poultry stocks around the world. China, which raises more poultry than any other country, has vowed to aggressively fight the virus. About ...

SHANGHAI -- Chinese agriculture officials ordered the slaughter of 377,000 chickens after they found poultry infected with a lethal form of avian influenza -- the first such outbreak publicly ...

Of those who contract H5N1, roughly 60 percent succumb to the illness. ... which president Xi Jinping last week described as a "demon" during a meeting with WHO in Beijing.

H5N1 avian influenza has claimed its first fatality in North America, killing an unidentified Canadian citizen who had traveled to Beijing in December to visit family. Public health officials in ...

A 24-year-old Beijing man classified as having died of Sars in November 2003 in fact died of H5N1 bird flu, mainland doctors wrote in yesterday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Of the 7,850 chickens on the farm where the outbreak occurred, 4,500 died of the H5N1 avian flu, Reuters reported. The Chinese government said it culled 17,828 chickens as a result of the H5N1 ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads across all 50 states, impacting US dairy farms and leading to human infections. Here's what to know.