Until last week, all bird flu in dairy herds had been identified as the B3.13 variant, which was believed to have come from ...

Avian flu first made the jump from birds into dairy cows on farms in a number of US states in spring 2024. Until now, all ...

State officials say the highly pathogenic avian influenza – more commonly known as bird flu – is widespread in much of the ...

One such H5 bird flu is the H5N1 virus currently causing an outbreak of bird flu across the U.S.—killing which has killed one person to date— and the H5N6 bird flu currently spreading around ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

Scientists also know a lot more about H5N1 bird flu than they did the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the US has been preparing for the threat of a new flu outbreak for a long time. Still, the virus is ...

A Louisiana resident has died after being hospitalized with bird flu, the state's health department announced Monday, marking the first U.S. death from the H5N1 virus. "The patient was over the ...

Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Salon H5N1 and other avian influenza viruses are a type A influenza virus. "We do need ...

Should you worry about a bird flu outbreak here? Here are the symptoms, how to protect yourself and what to do if you are exposed to H5N1 virus. Bird flu, also know as H5N1 or avian influenza ...