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

A strain of bird flu that has jumped from animals to people in the United States could find its way to Europe, EU scientists have warned in a new report. EU-US trade of “raw milk” products and wild ...

Future pandemics will likely emerge from animals. Strengthening animal health systems, improving surveillance, and embedding ...

A global alliance of animal welfare groups has blamed bird flu outbreaks on the caged egg industry, despite outbreaks being ...

H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids, but the new ...

H5N1 bird flu is capable of spreading through the air, a new animal study from the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has found. H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with ...

Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N subtypes. Only those labeled ...

1. Migratory bird patterns have changed: Wild birds are primary spreaders of avian flu. The United States could be experiencing a natural and temporary decline in human cases, which tend to peak in ...

“I simply wanted to say, ‘Hey, we have confirmation of (avian influenza) in wild birds in these locations, so anyone who is feeding birds in our area should stop,” King said.

Avian flu’s implications for animal agriculture, the human food chain and international trade took center stage at an industry forum hosted by NC State University’s Food Animal Initiative (FAI).

"These viruses are so closely related to MERS, so we have to be concerned if they ever infect humans," Letko said. "While there's no evidence they've crossed into people yet, the potential is ...