Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

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

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

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

The outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza virus in the US is now 1 year old. The virus, commonly known as bird flu, has wrought havoc ... and scale the sensor for real-world applications.

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High Plains.

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University ...