More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

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

Ireland's health officials have issued a warning over the spread of bird flu, urging the public not to touch sick or dead wild birds, as an interactive map shows the locations of all reported cases.

For months, an outbreak of avian flu in the state’s commercial poultry flock has stopped farmers from exporting and trading ...

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

The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from 80+ Centers of Excellence and ...

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

Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...

It can lead to more severe disease in some people. In past outbreaks of H5N1 around the world, bird flu has often been deadly. Despite the urgency, Russo and other vets said the Biden ...

A team led by UC Davis poultry scientist Huaijun Zhou has created the first comprehensive map of gene regulation in breeds of ... breed birds that are more resistant to diseases like avian influenza.

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there was in the winter. Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low ...