Cows don’t typically get the flu. The recent H5N1 flu outbreak in U.S. dairy herds is a wake-up call, not just about the ...

A new study highlights the need for public health officials to ramp up bird flu surveillance in our feline companions.

People in multiple US states tested positive for bird flu this year, raising concerns about the pandemic potential of the ...

It’s hard to turn on the news or look online without seeing something related to bird flu. Also known as H5N1, the virus is spreading in a few states across the country and sickening animals and farm ...

Health experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential pandemic threat posed by bird flu, which has been showing ...

H5N1 Virus Isolated from Infected Dairy Worker Is 100% Lethal in Ferrets, but Does Not Appear to Be Circulating in Nature Anymore Oct. 28, 2024 — A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in ...

Scientists are watching out for just these types of changes in the virus because it's seen as a key step in the path to bird flu sparking a pandemic. So far, these concerning mutations that affect ...

Infectious disease expert Dr. Michael Mina recently wrote that bird ... flu could become the next pandemic, warning, “If H5N1 bird flu continues to expand to human transmission … the history ...

The panzootic—a pandemic in animal species—of the highly pathogenic strain of the H5N1 of avian influenza is cutting a swathe through wild and domestic bird populations internationally ...

A British Columbia teenager who got sick with bird flu two weeks ago did not infect any people or animals they were in contact with while infectious, according to provincial health officer Dr ...

This month, two independent cases of bird flu were detected ... possibly triggering a pandemic like COVID-19. This is of particular concern amid the standard influenza season because genes could ...

A batch of raw milk has been voluntarily recalled after the bird flu virus was found in a retail sample by the County of Santa Clara Public Health Laboratory Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter ...