commonly called bird flu, has ravaged flocks around the world, disrupting supply and fueling higher food prices. Its spread to mammals, including dairy cows in the United States, has raised ...

Knowable Magazine answers questions about how dangerous bird flu is, where it came from, and what key events paved the way ...

Ian Brown, group leader of avian virology at the Pirbright Institute in the U.K., asked us. “That doesn’t feel terribly ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of ...

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists have been monitoring municipal wastewater to track the spread of pathogens like SARS-CoV-2 and, more recently, H5 (a biomarker for bird flu). Scientists in ...

The CDC reported the United States’ first-ever human ... virus through droplets or dust in the air. Bird flu viruses have spread between people outside of the U.S. in rare instances, but the ...

So far, the outbreak has caused one human death in the United States and several ... not just about the cost of eggs. Bird flu has been spreading to mammals. Cows have been dying.

Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in northern England, the first known case of its kind in the world, Britain's ...