The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has discovered avian flu in several species of mammals, including skunks, foxes and ...

In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing ...

Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely in domestic and wild animals, while exact transmission routes remain ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed 130 cases of H5N1 avian influenza in domestic cats spread across 23 states, ...

said the fact that the sheep's milk also tested positive suggested parallels with the ongoing H5N1 outbreak among dairy cows in the United States. Bird flu has spread among U.S. dairy cattle since ...

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 ...

Bird flu has spread among US dairy cattle since March 2024. He added, however, at the moment there was no evidence of ongoing transmission from the sheep and the case appeared to have been contained.

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 ...