The US Department of Health and Human Services is to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being ...

The controversial move affects development of vaccines against COVID-19, flu and H5N1, drawing criticism from public health ...

Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and domestic birds in the U.S. to die since it began in 2022, NBC News ...

The mutations in the bird flu, or H5N1, viruses that caused severe infections in British Columbia and Louisiana both occurred in a protein on the surface of the virus that allows it to attach to ...

Bird Flu Egg prices have soared 60% in a year. Here's why. Egg costs are soaring as Americans' eating habits change and as a deadly disease wipes out millions of birds. Jan 17, 2023 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The agency’s H5N1 bird flu emergency response was activated in April 2024, and since then, there have been 70 cases of H5N1 bird flu found in humans, CDC data shows.

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 ...

H5N1 bird flu isn’t going away. In fact, the virus continues to spin off new versions that outcompete their predecessors, posing a challenge for keeping it from jumping into people, poultry and ...