Bird flu also has infected nearly 70 people in the U.S., with one death, since 2024. Most of those infections have been among farmworkers exposed to infected poultry or cows.

In humans, the agency lists 70 cases of bird flu and one death to date. There have been no reported cases of person-to-person spread, and the CDC classifies the public health risk as low.

The H5N1 bird flu has been spreading widely among wild birds, poultry and other animals around the world for several years, and starting early last year became a problem in people and cows in the U.S.

The bird flu emergency is officially over, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency’s emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, which was activated on April ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle ...

Bird flu also has spread to mammals, including dairy cows in the United States, and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns it could spark a new pandemic. Vaccines costly to develop and ...

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.

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday it has ended its emergency response for H5N1 bird flu, owing to a decline in animal infections and no reports of human cases ...

H5N1 bird flu, prevalent in U.S. wild birds, has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, leading to 70 human cases and one death since 2024. Experts are divided on the pandemic ...

While rare, bird flu has infected over 140 cats since 2022, according to government data. Here's how to protect your pets.

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground. Birds are kept in disgusting, crowded conditions that encourage viral spread.