The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.

Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human ...

Avian flu in dairy cows could stick around on US farms forever, and is raising the risk of outbreaks in mammals—including ...

This year in the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Nine of those became ...

An extensive look at wastewater samples taken across the United States from May to July found traces of the H5N1 bird flu ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, refers to the disease caused by infection with Type A viruses. The Alabama Department of Public Health reports these viruses occur naturally among wild aquatic birds ...

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As of Friday, all that was known about the Missouri case was that the individual was infected with an H5 virus. The CDC was ...

The number of California dairy herds reported to have outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu has grown to eight.

Here’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently spread among cattle in U.S. states and marine mammals across the world, which health officials ...

Initially, it will focus on bird flu, a virus that ... is not yet equipped for real-time outbreak detection, Granick said. But it was inspired by a similar system in Britain, the Small Animal ...

Colorado’s outbreak of avian flu in poultry and dairy cattle seems to have died down, though the state continues to monitor farms for signs of the virus. That doesn’t include regularly testing farms’ ...