Bird flu, also known as H5N1, avian influenza, or avian flu, is an infection that can affect the lungs, nose, and throat. It is caused by a virus naturally spread through wild birds to other birds ...

Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a viral infection that can cause flu in birds and sometimes spread to mammals, including humans. Migrating waterfowl (wild ducks, geese, and storks) are ...

The patient’s flu swab was combined with others and sent to a central lab, which flagged that there was H5N1 in the batch and traced it back to the patient. On the one hand, this shows the ...

Still, the last five years have made many increasingly vigilant about viruses spreading. If you're still concerned about encountering the bird flu, here's what medical experts want you to know.

A bird flu infection cannot be diagnosed based solely on symptoms, according to the CDC. Medical professionals can test by taking a nose or throat swab from an infected person and sending it for ...

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 ...

Doctors can test for bird flu by “collecting a swab from the upper respiratory tract (nose or throat) of the sick person,” the CDC said. “Testing is more accurate when the swab is collected ...

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 ...

Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...

In the unlikely, but possible, event of a bird flu pandemic in humans, there are other lessons to be learned from COVID-19. Strategies to keep schools open and businesses working will be essential.

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

Researchers isolated the virus from a swab used to collect a sample from the eye of one of the infected workers. That virus — clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype B3.13 — was studied to determine how ...