Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or ...

Recent testing has detected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in mammal species in six Texas counties, state wildlife ...

That’s why the government has funded efforts to protect farmworkers and monitor them for signs of bird flu, like red eyes or flu-like symptoms ... of the bird flu in Louisiana in December ...

Feed stores are selling out of baby chickens. But there are downsides to having a backyard flock, such as cost and potential ...

H5N1 bird flu has infected over 1,009 cattle across 17 U.S. states, affected poultry in New York and New Mexico, and caused one human death in Louisiana.

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Apr. 17, 2025 — A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...