Before future studies would uncover a link between Nipah outbreaks and the felling of native forests for the purposes of ...

A dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu—genotype D1.1—that has newly spilled over to cows, ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

Nevada just confirmed its first human case of avian flu from infected cattle. Nevada’s first case was found in Churchill ...

Within 24 to 48 hours of the first detection of the virus, state and federal animal health officials work with farms to cull ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues report that a single dose of a broadly neutralizing antibody (bnAb) administered prior to virus exposure protects macaques from ...

This outbreak feels different from any other, farmers say. Egg producers and industry groups are begging for a new prevention ...

A California duck farm has culled thousands of birds as the virus seems to be trading genetics with other viruses ...

So that may be what's happening if we have a mismatch between an H5N1 vaccine that is already created and the strain that is circulating at whatever moment that the vaccine starts to be given out.

The urgency of vaccine development comes in response to a rising number of outbreaks worldwide. Countries, including the United States, have reported human fatalities linked to the H5N1 virus.

"We're in a very different place from the early days of COVID because we have a test, we have vaccines," he said. The United States currently has a stockpile of 4.5 million H5N1 vaccines ...