The spread of H5N1 into new species alarms researchers who say it could reassort in a new species, like pigs, leading to more ...

The Chilean flamingo, named Teal, hatched last fall and died Jan. 8. The 7-year-old harbor seal, named Slater, died the next ...

Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that a bird flu pandemic was ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

Scientists comment on the first human case of Avian flu detected in the UK, as announced by UKHSA. Prof Ed Hutchinson, Senior Lecturer, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (MRC CVR), ...

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H5N1 has in recent years seen a significant increase ... minks, foxes, dolphins, and seals, among others. In 2024, people working on dairy farms contracted the virus from sick cattle, raising ...

Rhode Island previously had an H5N1 infection in a noncommercial backyard flock in 2022. The US Centers for Disease Control ...