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.

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes ...

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 ...

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… ...

Bird flu isn’t as silent as we think — experts caution the pandemic threat ... New avenues for evolution. ... when asked about the risk to or from cats from H5N1 bird flu. "Cats kind of ...

Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but the recent appearance in mammals of the potentially dangerous avian influenza A strain, H5N1 — the bird flu virus — demands redoubling ...

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 […] ...