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

Most cases of human bird flu infections are due to contact with infected poultry or surfaces that are contaminated with ...

New Zealand has been preparing for the possible arrival of H5N1 bird flu, with the aim of minimising potential damage to ...

Health News Live Updates: Five years after COVID-19 shook the world, another lethal viral threat is making headlines the H5N1 or bird flu virus. A highly contagious strain of the H5N1 virus is ...

"Bird flu is very deadly to cats, and we urgently need to figure out how widespread the virus is in cat populations to better assess spillover risk to humans," said Kristen Coleman, an airborne ...

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year ...

While bird flu has been around for decades, the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen spread from a wild bird to a cow came as a surprise to virus watchers, according to news officials.

Every new infection increases the odds bird flu could potentially become more deadly or easily transmissible between humans, infectious disease expert Dr. Kamran Khan warns. Today, the virus does ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b ...