Bird flu has decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds. The risk to humans is currently low, but that could easily ...

H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., with different variants of that virus spreading in wild birds, poultry flocks, dairy cattle ...

Scientists also know a lot more about H5N1 bird flu than they did the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the US has been preparing for the threat of a new flu outbreak for a long time. Still, the virus is ...

The more common H5N1 strain was also found at the same farm, which is located in Merced County, according to reports. Health agencies are conducting "comprehensive epidemiological investigations ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli covered the Covid-19 and mpox outbreaks, and has tracked the spread of H5N1 since 2003. When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed ...

The U.S. hasn’t been able to control the spread of the H5N1 bird flu. And now, there’s been a reported outbreak in the U.S. of another strain of avian influenza, H5N9. This H5N9 outbreak ...

A child in California is presumed to have H5N1 bird flu, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). As of Dec. 23, there had been 36 confirmed human cases of bird flu in ...

A surge in H5N1 virus cases among pets, particularly cats, has raised alarms about raw pet food safety. The virus, devastating bird populations nationwide since 2022, has infected cats through ...

The H5N9 strain was found at a California duck farm that has already lost nearly 119,000 birds to the more common H5N1 variant of the disease, which is formally known as Highly Pathogenic Avian ...

Trump Puts Federal DEI Staff on Paid Leave as Cuts Take Shape 50 years ago, one of cinema’s best auteurs made his debut with this movie Leaked memo: Stripe lays off 300 employees, mostly in ...