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

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

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

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.

The United States has, so far this year, largely escaped bird flu, but is on high alert after outbreaks of H5N2, a highly pathogenic bird flu, hit farms in 15 states in 2015 and led to the culling ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.