Farm workers facing possible arrest would likely resist getting tested for bird flu should there be a resurgence this fall, ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

While rare, bird flu has infected over 140 cats since 2022, according to government data. Here's how to protect your pets.

The first death caused by H5N1 bird flu was reported in January 2025. Some believe the virus could eventually pose a widespread risk to the public.

Although health officials say the risk of H5N1 bird flu infection is still low for the ... So too was the 2009 H1N1 swine flu, which led to a pandemic estimated to have caused the death of more ...

If it mutates to enable human-to-human spread, a bird flu pandemic risks a demographic, societal and economic shock far greater than COVID. H5N1 is already driving economic impacts.

The risk of the bird flu outbreak among dairy cows in the US triggering a human flu pandemic may be lower than feared. Cow udders have lots of bird-like flu virus binding sites but no human-like ...

As avian influenza continues to spread among wild bird populations in the European Union (EU), scientists have described a wide range of factors that could drive the virus to spread efficiently ...