These findings alone do not mean that the bird flu virus is on its way to creating another pandemic, the researchers said. The bird flu virus strain that is rampant among dairy cows in the U.S. may ...

Nepal has culled 600,000 birds as H5N1 sweeps Kathmandu, closing the capital's only zoo and raising fears it could mutate to ...

Bird flu is not merely a veterinary issue but a One Health challenge that demands coordinated action across human, animal, ...

H5N1 bird flu samples collected from a severely ill patient in Louisiana show signs of mutations that may make the virus more transmissible to humans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

As the deadly H5N1 virus makes landfall in Australia, experts hope strong biosecurity will protect poultry and dairy cattle ...

Los Angeles County health officials have documented the first known transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) ...

Feral animals could become bird flu spreaders and sources of mutations, experts and farmers warn, prompting calls urgently to ...

The 2021–24 surge also saw over 100 human infections, and 10 deaths, with most cases in the United States and Cambodia.

After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals, and an unprecedented recommendation by a government review panel to ...