Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

H5N1 bird flu is widespread among wild birds in the United States, and has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows. Since 2024, the Centers for Disease Control has reported 70 human ...

The H5N1 bird flu has been spreading widely among wild birds, poultry and other animals around the world for several years, and starting early last year became a problem in people and cows in the U.S.

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground. Birds are kept in disgusting, crowded conditions that encourage viral spread.

Data from Tanguingui Island in the Philippines suggest that H5N2 virus was present in wild birds as early as two years before the country’s first confirmed outbreak in backyard ducks in November ...

It is the stuff of science fiction: scientists tamper with a killer bird flu virus and create something much worse. But what has been created in a Rotterdam laboratory is not fiction. It is deadly ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle ...

The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...

During flu season, get a flu shot, Khan said. While it’s not formulated to fight the bird flu, it can help you avoid a potentially dangerous co-infection (having both viruses at the same time).

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected. Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground. Birds are kept in disgusting, crowded conditions that encourage viral spread.