H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

There have been 68 human cases of bird flu — flu strain H5N1 — in the U.S. since the beginning of 2024, mostly arising from contact with infected cattle and poultry. Infectious disease experts ...

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

If effective controls designed to mitigate the quantity of viral shedding and known transmission pathways are removed, the exposure risk for other animals and ... making investments to understand bird ...

In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway’s unique coastal ecosystem ...

H5N1 bird flu, prevalent in U.S. wild birds, has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, leading to 70 human cases and one death since 2024. Experts are divided on the pandemic ...

Bird flu has caused the deaths of over 100 million birds in the U.S. poultry industry and almost half a billion farmed birds worldwide, and scientists are concerned that the virus is changing and b… ...

No bird flu transmission between humans has been documented, and the CDC maintains that the immediate risk to public health is low. But scientists are increasingly worried, based on four key signals.

Bird flu has been detected in all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, but officials are stressing that the current health risk to the public is low, according to the Centers […] ...