Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

Dr. Erika Wichro will be honored at the International Association of Top Professionals annual awards gala in Las Vegas. NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, July 17, 2025 /EINPresswire.co ...

A study published in Science Advances provides a comprehensive phylogenetic and phylogeographic analysis of the North American outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1), which was ...

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

The CDC ends its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu after recording 70 human cases and one death nationally, even as experts ...

According to the CDC, there has been a decline in animal infections and no reports of human cases since February.

The union representing workers at a UC Davis lab key to California's efforts to test and track bird flu infections in livestock has sued the university, ...