Over the past three years, avian influenza (H5N1) has spread around the U.S. and affected many species of birds and mammals, ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses like H5N1, H5N6, and H7N9 pose an evolving global threat due to their capacity to infect birds, mammals, and occasionally humans, with sporadic outbreaks and ...

Researchers identified a novel genotype (D1.1) of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 spreading among wild birds, poultry, ...

Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has ...

So far, 70 human cases have been confirmed, according to the CDC. Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected.

Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, on Friday reported its first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza - also ...

Bird flu has been in the news a lot in recent weeks with cats in the Pacific Northwest falling ill and in some cases sadly being euthanized. The outbreak began back in March 2024 in dairy cattle ...

As bird flu sweeps across US poultry and cattle farms, researchers are racing to find ways to contain the outbreaks before ...

Bird flu has spread widely in poultry, causing egg shortages. Virus spillover has occurred in various mammal species, including humans. H5N1 does not currently have the ability to spread human to ...

After rebounding in recent decades due to conservation efforts, the number of once-imperiled peregrine falcons in the U.S.

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...