The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy farmworker is capable of airborne transmission, amping up concerns about its potential to spark a new pandemic, according to a research letter ...

It is the seventh case of the year and is part of an overall rise in H5N1 infections in Cambodia since late 2023. The patient ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids, but the new ...

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

Within days, Crescent Duck Farm, a century-old institution and the last duck farm remaining in a New York region once ...