The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Thursday announced plans to spend up to $100M to combat the transmission of the bird flu virus in poultry, adding to the Trump administration's ...

Existing flu antivirals may not work well against H5N1; avoiding raw milk and reducing dairy worker exposure may be the best ...

“But if I was infected with an H5N1 virus, I would be asking for both drugs.” In the US, 70 people have been infected with the H5N1 virus since April 2024, and 41 of those cases were ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the U.S. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip. Instead of ...

"Bird experts are worried ... of new and better flu treatments for people, I would recommend we use the system that has brought us the safe and effective drugs that we use in our hospitals every ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

There's a new reason to steer clear of raw cheese: New research shows it can harbor the infectious bird flu virus for months ... in supplies of illegal drugs, is spreading to the U.S.-Mexico ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — Existing antivirals may be less effective against this H5N1 bird flu strain, and prevention measures, such as avoiding raw milk consumption and reducing exposure in dairy workers ...

Bird Flu Is Mutating, but Antivirals Still Work Jan ... one of the avenues being explored by scientists is the development of drugs capable of destabilizing its genome, made up of RNA molecules.

Getty Nevada Resident Infected with New Strain of Bird Flu: 'We’re Gonna Have Another ... Kennedy advised “intensively test[ing] therapeutic drugs on those flocks” to help develop “a ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the US. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...