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

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 ...

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

There have been 68 human cases of bird flu — flu strain H5N1 — in the U.S. since the beginning of 2024, mostly arising from contact with infected cattle and poultry. Infectious disease experts ...

Bird flu is already a tragedy. ... Microbial evolution may be one culprit: Flu viruses are particularly inclined to tweak their RNA code; ... the risks of intermingling are only growing.

Roughly four years later, another pandemic could be looming: H5N1 bird flu. Even though we’re just a handful of years out from the Covid-19 pandemic and the lessons learned (and issues it revealed), I ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

The bird flu virus has infected over 1,000 dairy herds and caused 70+ human cases across America. Learn 5 vital facts about H5N1 and the measured response Skip to content ...

No bird flu transmission between humans has been documented, and the CDC maintains that the immediate risk to public health is low. But scientists are increasingly worried, based on four key signals.

Related: Wastewater testing specifically for bird flu virus will scale up nationally in coming weeks Peiris and colleagues wonder, though, whether the 2009 H1N1 pandemic lowered the risk H5N1 poses.