The new strain, D1.1, is different from the strain, B3.13, that has been detected in other dairy herds throughout the country ...

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

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

UC San Francisco's Rais Vohra, MD, explains recent increase in reported virus infections and the risks of consuming raw cow’s milk.

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers ...

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

Manufacturers of raw dog and cat food must do a better job detecting bird flu in products sold to ... can inactivate viruses, including H5N1 and other pathogens in food. Under the Food and Drug ...

What is H5N9 and how is it different from H5N1? Scientists classify bird flu viruses by which kind of two key proteins are inside of them: the hemagglutinin, like H5 or H3, and th ...

In this new study, the researchers wondered if that might be the case with H5 subtypes of the avian influenza virus—most specifically, H5N1 and H5N6. Both types are currently infecting birds ...

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 ...

Currently, no avian influenza A viruses, including avian influenza A(H5N1), have gained the ability to spread easily and sustainably among people, according to the CDC. The spread of bird flu ...

no person-to-person spread of H5N1 has been identified, but health officials are monitoring the virus for any genetic changes that would make transmission among people more likely. Most bird flu ...