Bird flu has been spreading in dairy cows in the US—and the scale is likely to be far worse than it looks. In addition, 14 ...

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

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

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Several labs will work with federal health authorities to develop a test for avian influenza, as the number of human cases ...

A new survey of epidemiology and infectious diseases experts evaluate how prepared we are for disease outbreaks and overall ...

A growing number of U.S. adults are hesitant to get recommended vaccines this fall, a new survey found. Doctors discuss ...

In parallel with COVID, in 2020 the reassortment of H5N6 and H5N8 with the H5-2.3.4.4b hemagglutinin gene and strains of ...

The H5N1 virus, initially restricted to Eurasia and Africa, has since spread to North and South America and even reached ...

The Czech Republic has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on a ...

In the U.S., H5N1 has been detected in wild birds since 2022 and has caused major outbreaks on commercial poultry farms, ...

A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the ...