“Companion animals, and especially cats, are 100% a public health risk in terms of the risk of zoonotic transmission to ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said in a routine flu update that two people, in Wyoming and Ohio ...

A CDC study has found H5N1 bird flu antibodies in veterinarians who had no symptoms and no knowledge they had been working ...

The D1.1 strain of H5N1, now spreading in dairy herds, has a mutation that enhances replication in mammals. Could this be a ...

The outbreak of bird flu that began in the United States in 2022 among wild birds and poultry has since spread to dairy ...

Scientists have identified a novel influenza A virus (H18N12) in fishing bats in the Colombian Caribbean, revealing genetic ...

As egg prices continue to skyrocket due to the avian flu outbreak, egg farmers are having to invest millions of dollars in ...

If bird flu is only spreading through direct animal contact, how did veterinarians with no known exposure get infected?

If bird flu is killing animals right and left, and has killed at least one human, should we be worried? To answer that, I ...

"The ducks in California, however, were dying," he said. "Genetic testing showed this H5N9 was different from historical samples and was, in fact, a reassortment." (Reassortment is the process by ...

With so much H5N1 circulating in the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic.

A recent CDC MMWR report shows three new asymptomatic human cases of bird flu, suggesting the virus may be silently spreading ...