On Heard Island, a remote Australian subantarctic island some 4,000 km southwest of Perth, scientists were concerned after ...

Type A viruses are the most significant for human and animal health, and they are all descended from avian viruses. The flu A ...

How can we monitor the cross-species transmission of avian flu? The answer is FluWarning, a digital system that reports ...

PESCADERO, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 20: A view of chickens and a rooster at a farm as California declares state of emergency to prevent new public health crisis on Bird flu in Pescadero, California, ...

A dangerous type of bird flu virus (called H5N1) continues to circulate among dairy cows in the US. The virus targets the mammary gland's milk-secreting epithelial cells, causing painful infections in ...

While it remains seasonal in poultry, the disease is spreading in dairy cows and infecting hundreds of other ...

It was a quiet summer for bird flu: Egg prices fell a bit, fewer sick poultry flocks were culled on farms, and officials took a breath. “It was lovely,” said Shauna Voss, the assistant director of the ...

A U.S. patient has tested positive for the H5N5 bird flu subtype for the first time. Learn how H5N5 differs from H5N1, what the new strains mean for public health, and whether vaccines are available.

Pasteurization completely inactivates the H5N1 bird flu virus in milk — even if viral proteins linger. Drinking properly pasteurized milk contaminated with avian influenza remnants won’t increase ...

Human breast tissue may be capable of hosting — and passing on — bird flu. Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at ...

Federal health officials are warning that certain lots of raw cat food may be contaminated with H5N1 bird flu after a pet cat in San Francisco that ate the food became infected with the virus and had ...