State and federal officials have identified new cases of avian influenza at three Central Valley dairies as the number of ...

It is not inevitable that H5N1 will develop into a pandemic -- if we act now. Unfortunately, instead of urgent action, we ...

With cold and flu season approaching, it’s worth knowing about another virus out there—albeit extremely rare: bird flu. Like ...

Kleptoparasitism, in which a bird harasses another to steal its food, might introduce avian flu to the continent, currently ...

An extensive look at wastewater samples taken across the United States from May to July found traces of the H5N1 bird flu ...

Research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) suggests that many people already have immune cells on ...

Several labs will work with federal health authorities to develop a test for avian influenza, as the number of human cases ...

Reasons: Sporadic human cases of avian influenza have been reported worldwide, most of which have been reported from China ...

Researchers in Texas detected H5N1 in wastewater from 10 cities, but the risk to humans is currently low. Ongoing ...

The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.

A study out of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found that high-pathogenicity avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H5N1 ...

The deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus, which has killed millions of birds worldwide since 2021—and in rare cases can be ...