After a different strain of bird flu was recently found in cattle for the first time, experts reveal what this means in our fight against the virus.

As cases of seasonal influenza surge, health officials are closely monitoring a growing threat—the potential fusion of human ...

Anxieties are high as experts warn the avian flu outbreak could worsen in the spring, but egg prices are spurring more newcomers to start backyard flocks.

The soaring price of eggs is a ripple effect of an ongoing outbreak of avian influenza, also known as H5N1 or bird flu, which ...

The report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in dairy herds is spreading undetected in cows, and the spillover into ...

While a pandemic is not inevitable, the spread of the bird flu virus, also known as H5N1, has surpassed worrisome milestones ...

Dairy herds in Nevada have been infected by a version of the H5N1 bird flu not previously seen in cows, putting virologists ...

Thanks to a social media firestorm and a last-minute court injunction, 400 ostriches that were facing a culling on 1 February ...

The Trump administration has disrupted the U.S. response to bird flu as the outbreak worsens, leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, state officials, veterinarians and health experts, ...

If the bird flu virus mutates in the future, it could “become highly transmissible and spread rapidly through the population,” Emily Landon, M.D., an infectious diseases expert at the ...

The CDC said the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus could mutate and become more transmissible. Shoppers are scrambling to find ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...