New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been around since the 1990s, but this current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, ...

H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids, but the new ...

The world's top experts on avian influenza are in St. John's this week working toward a global response to the growing amount ...

U.S. Senate Democrats demanded on Wednesday Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. make public the reviews on which his ...

The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy farmworker is capable of airborne transmission, amping up concerns about its potential to spark a new pandemic, according to a research letter ...

Human cases of bird flu have plateaued since February of this year, and experts are wondering why. ... Nuzzo said she isn’t certain if H5N1 will trigger the next flu pandemic.