H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

As highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in the U.S., posing serious threats to dairy and poultry farms, ...

Robert Redfield, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that it is "not a question ...

Apr. 17, 2025 — A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as ...

It was a first for cows last March when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the highly pathogenic avian flu virus ...

Bird flu cases continue to be detected in live poultry markets in the city two months after the state temporarily shut them ...