"This type of prevention can be very useful in controlling infection outbreaks and containing the bird flu pandemic," said an ...

H5N1 bird flu, also known as avian influenza, continues to spread, with reports of a third human case from an unknown ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens ...

After a year of rising bird flu cases among people in the United States, researchers are keeping a watchful eye on the H5N1 virus to slow further spread. Since early 2024, the country has recorded ...

Two European regulators said on Wednesday they were tracking variants of the bird flu virus due to the threat of the pathogen ...

Georgia has reported cases of bird flu in three flocks. Here's a closer look at the virus, where it is, and how dangerous it ...

A new strain of a highly pathogenic and rare strain of bird flu has been reported on a duck farm in central California.

The progression of the bird flu in America since 2021 has been unprecedented, including the first-ever cases of infections in dairy cattle and raising heightened pandemic risks.

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia, Canada, hospitalized with critical illness from bird flu in November, also had this version of the virus. She no longer needs intensive support but remains ...

These strains occur because of the phenomenon known as antigenic shift, in which humans are infected with avian influenza viruses or viruses that contain a combination of genes from human and ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

This particularly virulent strain of bird flu, H5N1, has affected dairy cattle ... beef samples have returned negative results for virus particle testing. Pasteurized consumer milk has also ...