Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

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

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

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

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

REUTERS — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended its emergency response for H5N1 avian flu, owing to a decline in animal infections and no reports of human cases since February.

Scientists have known for more than a year that bird flu, H5N1, made the jump from wild birds and common poultry to cows and ...

Pasteurization is the process of heating a food product for a certain amount of time to destroy bacteria and viruses present, ...

Songbirds are much less likely than waterfowl to contract variants of avian influenza and less likely to shed large amounts of virus, meaning they do not transmit the disease easily. (For detailed ...

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

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...