Since its emergence in US dairy cattle, highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu, H5N1) has defied control, spreading to ...

A team of Chilean scientists has sequenced the first complete genomes of the H5N1 avian influenza virus found in birds in ...

In recent years, there has been growing concern over the H5N1 influenza virus. It was first identified in birds three decades ...

Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy ...

Erik Karlsson, PhD, with the National Influenza Center and Pasteur Institute in Cambodia, said on X today that 7 of the 15 ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus can now be found not only in milk and on milking equipment but also in farm wastewater and in ...

Studies suggest that people who had seasonal flus or vaccinations have low antibody levels against H5N1 bird flu.

The H5N1 influenza virus, which was first identified in birds three decades ago, has now gradually found its way to humans.

Because H5N1 is a virus specifically evolved to attack birds, it isn’t as good at infecting the cells of mammals — yet. But if you can count on one thing for viruses to do, it’s mutate.

Bird flu was probably circulating in dairy cows for at least four months before it was confirmed to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, according to a new analysis of genomic data by scientists ...

Stopgap measures against H5N1 bird flu can only go so far The real problem is not the virus — it’s our systems An employee grabs a chicken to slaughter inside a poultry store in New York last ...

Make public the government’s planned strategy for H5N1 communication. Government agencies should provide people with a rough schedule of when they should expect to be updated.