No bird flu vaccine is available for cats. They can be exposed any time they're out roaming, so keeping your cat inside is much more important now than it's been in the past.

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 ...

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.

By Sara Frueh Over the past three years, bird flu — caused by the avian influenza A (H5N1) virus — has extended its reach around the U.S. and across many species. The virus arrived in wild birds, but ...

In a bid to get ahead of the next global flu pandemic, scientists have turned to a surprising tool: bird poop. In remote parts of the Indian Ocean and Oceania — regions often neglected during ...

It is the stuff of science fiction: scientists tamper with a killer bird flu virus and create something much worse. But what has been created in a Rotterdam laboratory is not fiction. It is deadly ...

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 ...

The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...

We don't even know how many cases of bird flu in cats are out there. About 2.6% of cats allowed to roam in one endemic area were found to have antibodies to bird flu (1), but some of the cats that ...

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.