After a year of rising bird flu cases among people in the United States, researchers are keeping a watchful eye on the H5N1 virus to slow further spread. Since early 2024, the country has recorded ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the brink of human-to-human transmission, but predicting whether a virus will ...

Avian flu has reduced that number to 300 million and more are dying every week. “It’s not like you can just start producing eggs right away,” said Avery Barry, Waialua Fresh Eggs general ...

In this prospective observational study, immune protection against H5N1 and H7N9 avian influenza virus (AIV) was almost absent prior to vaccination. However, seasonal influenza vaccines induced a ...

While bird flu’s risk to the general public remains low, there are many “barriers to success” that make containing the virus — and staving off a possible pandemic — somewhat tricky for ...

Mike Lomax travels hundreds of miles for the chance to see rare birds Bird watchers from across England are in west Cornwall hoping to catch sight of a Booted Eagle. BBC News talks to some of them ...

Within the next two weeks, the owners of a remote B.C. ostrich farm are expected to round up 400 of their ostriches and kill them following an avian flu outbreak. “We can’t shoot them.

Influenza A(H5N1) predominately affects wild birds and poultry. Credit: Pordee_Aomboon via Shutterstock. With cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) continuing to rise among cattle and humans in the US, ...

On January 6, the Louisiana Department of Health announced that a patient hospitalized last month for H5N1 avian influenza had died, becoming the first U.S. death from the virus. To make matters worse ...