HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

Bird Flu Found in Sheep: The H5N1 virus was detected in a single sheep in Britain, in what the government described as the first case of its kind reported anywhere in the world.

A quadruple whammy of viruses – flu, COVID, norovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV – is hitting the U.S. as the year comes to a close. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

As bird flu infections rise in dairy cattle and chickens, human cases are ticking up too, leaving many people to wonder whether they might be at risk from this recently arrived virus.

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the ...

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 ...

However, most recent human cases of bird flu in the U.S. have resulted in only mild symptoms. The CDC has said it is on the ...

Scientists have an idea of how bird flu would have to evolve in order to spread more easily among humans: A mutation in one protein on the virus' surface could help it bind better human cells.

The H5N1 bird flu, spreading across all 50 U.S. states, raises concerns about a potential pandemic. The virus has impacted dairy farms, poultry flocks, and humans, with one confirmed human death ...

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 ...

Viral roulette . 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 ...

Experts urge U.S. to prepare for possible new pandemic as H5N1 bird flu outbreak spreads with dairy animal and human cases. Here's what to know.