Doctors and researchers said the moves will make it harder to detect potentially dangerous changes. If the virus continues to ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to ...

H5N1 bird flu can cause severe symptoms, and it has a high death rate. However, the virus does not transmit easily among humans, and the risk of a pandemic is low.

H5N1 bird flu is widespread among wild birds in the United States, and has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows. Since 2024, the Centers for Disease Control has reported 70 human ...

H5N1 bird flu is widespread among wild birds in the United States, and has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows. Since 2024, the Centers for Disease Control has reported 70 human ...

Bird flu, also known as H5N1, has been around for decades. But the discovery in 2024 that the virus spread from wild birds to cows came as a surprise to public health experts, according to officials.

H5N1 is a specific strain of influenza A virus, also known as bird flu. The avian flu is a highly contagious respiratory disease that primarily affects birds, but can also infect other animals ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus has spread among a variety of bird species, including chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, and many migratory wild birds. There have also been cases in humans and other mammals ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported the outbreak of the new strain, H5N9, earlier this week.

"H5N1 reassorts with other avian influenza viruses quite frequently and even the current H5 HA protein that is infecting dairy cows and commercial poultry farms in the US has been shown to ...

It's only the second case of bird flu in a human ever reported in the U.S. There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of this H5N1 virus so far, but health officials are on high alert.

As H5N1 cases have mostly been confined to those with either bird or cattle exposures, and experts maintain there has been no evidence of sustained human-to-human spread, almost all influenza A ...