Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, among ...

The proof-of-concept study is one of the first to combine B and T cell analysis and potentially paves the way for tests that ...

A CDC report on bird flu shows potential transmission of bird flu between exposed dairy workers and indoor pet cats. The ...

Research shows that highly pathogenic avian influenza can be transmitted among farms by wind. Air intake systems are ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and its partners are taking proactive measures to protect the health of people in ...

A team of government veterinarians with the State Veterinary Institute Prague in the Czech Republic has found possible evidence of windborne H5N1 infections in chickens. In their paper posted on the ...

The Trump administration plans to roll out a new strategy against the bird flu. There are few details, but to bring egg ...

The Wyoming Department of Health said on Friday it has identified its first human case of H5N1 bird flu in the region, making ...

Before future studies would uncover a link between Nipah outbreaks and the felling of native forests for the purposes of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged the first severe and thus far only fatal human case of H5N1 in the U.S. in Louisiana last December after the person’s exposure to sick and ...

To date, 67 human cases of H5N1 infection have been confirmed in the U.S. and a patient in Louisiana has died, according to the CDC. The virus has not yet spread easily from person to person.

In the relatively few U.S. cases of human bird flu so far recorded, symptoms have typically been mild -- congestion, pink eye and other transitory effects. But if H5N1 mutated so that it could ...