A chicken pokes it head out from its cage, with an inset image of a mutating virus inset. Bird flu, or avian influenza A(H5N1), was originally a virus transmissible among birds but has since ...

While bird flu has been around for decades, the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen spread from a wild bird to a cow came as a surprise to virus watchers, according to news officials.In ...

No human cases have been reported in New York, but the avian virus was very common among certain wild birds on Long Island in 2022 and 2023. ... The flu virus has also been found in mammals.

The mutations in the bird flu, or H5N1, viruses that caused severe infections in British Columbia and Louisiana both occurred in a protein on the surface of the virus that allows it to attach to ...

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

Bird flu continues to affect the availability and price of eggs as the disease hits farms and wipes out flocks. Last year, bird flu killed more than 40 million egg-laying birds.

Until we are able to stop the spread of bird flu, the administration should reinstate communication about the virus and allow efforts that could prevent a pandemic to be put back in place.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At the same time, recent CDC data shows that seasonal influenza A is rising ...

Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk to public health, according to a new study from researchers at Cornell ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads across all 50 states, impacting US dairy farms and leading to human infections. Here's what to know.