H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

While bird flu and regular flu share some similarities they differ significantly in their causes transmission and impacts on ...

The warning from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization came on March 17, the same day the a new U.S. outbreak of dangerous H7N9 bird flu was reported. Since it first emerged in 2013 ...

Some of the issues: In March 2017, an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H7N9 virus was detected in two commercial chicken breeder flocks in the United States. This North ...

“This ‘strategy’ also coincides with the emergence of a new strain of a highly pathogenic bird flu known as H7N9, which surfaced at a poultry farm in Mississippi earlier this month and led ...

Five more cases of H7N9 bird flu -- three in Shanghai and two in Jiangsu Province -- were reported on Thursday, bringing the total number of people infected in China to 38, including 10 that have died ...

The Government has placed several areas of the UK under mandated enhanced biosecurity for kept birds due to concerns around ...

Democrats are calling for information about how Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will address the bird flu. outbreak ...

So that’s kind of reassuring.” Bird flu in people is rare, although some viruses, like H5N1 or H7N9, have been associated with human disease. Symptoms can vary depending on the strain ...

In February 2024, dairy farmers in Texas began noticing their cows were producing less milk and that the milk was discoloured ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...

Bird flu in people is rare, although some viruses, like H5N1 or H7N9, have been associated with human disease (Alamy/PA) Storm Newton6 days ago The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to ...