CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at avian flu. Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains ...

Bird flu has now spread to humans in a dozen states after public health officials confirmed an Ohio man had contracted the disease. The Mercer County farmworker had come into contact with deceased ...

Bird flu has been circulating worldwide since the 1990 and was first detected in American dairy farms in March 2024. It had infected 70 people as of late February, and killed one.

Over 480 bird species and dozens of mammal species have been affected. That includes humans. Seventy people in the U.S. have gotten sick with bird flu in the past year, nearly all exposed to the virus ...

We don't even know how many cases of bird flu in cats are out there. About 2.6% of cats allowed to roam in one endemic area were found to have antibodies to bird flu (1), but some of the cats that ...

Public health officials are continuing to monitor as an outbreak of avian flu, also known as bird flu, continues to spread across the country.. The strain, known as H5N1, has sickened several ...

How a bird flu pandemic could emerge 06:21. The Trump administration has canceled $766 million awarded to drugmaker Moderna Inc. to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses ...

If bird flu is mainly limited to farmworkers and only occasionally severe, why dedicate so much money for vaccine development? This view misses the unpredictability of infectious pathogens. Like ...

According to the World Health Organization of 573 confirmed bird flu cases in humans since 2003, 336 people have died. That's a staggering 60% mortality rate. Nothing in history comes close to that.