Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Experts from the Global Virus Network (GVN), which includes human and animal virologists from more than 40 countries, say the next pandemic could come from a familiar source: H5N1 avian influenza, ...

Although bird flu has been present on Earth for decades, this new kind of pathogen, H5N1, is one of the most fatal ones, and can take human lives. Only in 2024, the H5N1 virus spread through ...

Experts have long recognized that the H5N1 virus that causes the disease has pandemic potential, just like COVID-19 or swine flu. In the past three years, outbreaks of bird flu, formally called ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

Lindsey Baden: So, Lindsay, you mentioned that 113 birds have had H5N1 identified ... more and those have been sequenced and we do keep a map where people are reporting that they find them ...

According to the latest report by the CDC, the highly lethal H5N1 bird flu virus has exploded into all 50 states. Officials have also confirmed that since March 2024, over 1,000 dairy herds have ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

The risk to human health is expected to rise as H5N1 evolves to better infect mammals, the study finds. This rapid adaptation means that "an H5N1 vaccine made (for an earlier strain) will have ...