“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can ...

Though H5N1 has been circulating nationwide in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals since 2022, you may have only been ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday it will award $306 million in additional funding to monitor ...

Public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe bird flu cases in two North American patients.

It can spread to other animals and to humans. The H5N1 bird flu isn’t new. The CDC says the virus was first identified in Southern China in domestic waterfowl in 1996. In 1997, it spread to 18 ...

The CDC has declared the first “severe” case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S., according to a press release published Wednesday. The good news? The person who contracted the virus appears to have ...

The CDC has confirmed 65 cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans in 2024. Of those, 39 were associated with dairy herds and 23 with poultry farms and culling operations. For two cases, the source of ...

To date this year, 61 human cases of H5N1 bird flu have been confirmed in the U.S ... Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases ...

A patient was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu in Louisiana, the CDC said. This case is the first confirmed instance of a severe human infection linked to the H5N1 virus. The CDC said ...

commonly known as bird flu, less than a month after a child in California was diagnosed with the virus. On Friday, the CDC confirmed a person from Louisiana had avian influenza A virus, H5N1 ...