The new assessment, developed using the CDC’s influenza risk assessment tool or IRAT, gauged the risk the virus might someday cause a pandemic at 5.79, up from a previous score of 5.12 from an ...

Bird flu outbreaks are a numbers game, and the numbers are turning against us. Skip to main content. ... Yet dialing back pandemic influenza risk is within our reach. Immediately, ...

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

The United States has, so far this year, largely escaped bird flu, but is on high alert after outbreaks of H5N2, a highly pathogenic bird flu, hit farms in 15 states in 2015 and led to the culling ...

The risk of a bird flu pandemic depends on whether the virus stays primarily an animal disease, with occasional spillover infections, or mutates to be a human illness.

While rare, bird flu has infected over 140 cats since 2022, according to government data. Here's how to protect your pets.

As avian influenza continues to spread among wild bird populations in the European Union (EU), scientists have described a wide range of factors that could drive the virus to spread efficiently ...

The first death caused by H5N1 bird flu was reported in January 2025. Some believe the virus could eventually pose a widespread risk to the public.

Bird flu will be the next pandemic unless health officials take 6 critical ... [flu] increases the risk of reassortments” in those who have that virus and an H5 infection at the same time ...

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year, ...

The risk of the bird flu outbreak among dairy cows in the US triggering a human flu pandemic may be lower than feared. Cow udders have lots of bird-like flu virus binding sites but no human-like ...

Although health officials say the risk of H5N1 bird flu infection is still low for the ... So too was the 2009 H1N1 swine flu, which led to a pandemic estimated to have caused the death of more ...