Bird flu H5N1 is infecting people in the U.S. See the map of cases. Could it trigger the next pandemic? Experts explain the threat and symptoms to watch for.

Avian influenza virus cases tend to rise during the colder months, as is the case with human influenza. However, since 2020, H5N1 has also been appearing during spring and summer. This has contributed to its enormous geographical spread, and it is now present on every continent except Oceania.

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Osofsky is a wildlife veterinarian and the Jay Hyman professor of wildlife health and health policy at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The Trump administration recently canceled $766 million in contracts with Moderna to develop and ...

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild birds, agriculture, and mammals.

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year H5N1 did something strange: it started infecting cattle.

While it remains seasonal in poultry, the disease is spreading in dairy cows and infecting hundreds of other species—including a few humans.

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) on Thursday revealed preclinical data from the H5N1 avian pandemic influenza vaccine candidate. Leveraging Novavax’s recombinant, protein-based nanoparticle technology and Matrix-M adjuvant, the vaccine candidate induced ...

How can we monitor the cross-species transmission of avian flu? The answer is FluWarning, a digital system that reports abnormal changes in flu viruses, developed by a research team from the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Milan.

Silanna UV's Ultraviolet LEDs effectively inactivate multiple H5N1 avian influenza virus strains within seconds, according to recent research by scientists at the University of Siena. The research showed strong viral reduction of up to 99.

A person in Washington is presumed infected with bird flu virus. Health officials in the state do not know the source.

Researchers have developed a computer model using the agent-based simulation framework, BharatSim, to simulate a potential H5N1 bird flu outbreak in a realistic South Asian community.