The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk poultry and dairy workers, veterinarians and lab technicians ...

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.

Seventy people, mostly farm workers, have contracted the virus since 2024, and further spread raises the risk that bird flu could become more transmissible to humans, experts say.

She recently released a paper reviewing bird flu in infections in cats between 2004 and 2024. Barn cats that died after drinking raw milk were one of the first signs that dairy cows were becoming ...

How a bird flu pandemic could emerge 06:21. Federal health agencies oppose the use of bird flu vaccines in poultry right now, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ...

transcript. The Evolving Danger of the New Bird Flu An unusual outbreak of the disease has spread to dairy herds in multiple U.S. states. 2024-04-22T06:00:09-04:00 ...

In the last 14 months, infections have been reported in 70 people in the U.S. — most of them workers on dairy and poultry farms. ... The US hasn’t seen a human bird flu case in 3 months.

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.