The death from bird flu of a person in Washington is a reminder that avian flu is circulating widely during flu season, ...

There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission and the risk to the general public is low, however, health officials ...

Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering ...

While it remains seasonal in poultry, the disease is spreading in dairy cows and infecting hundreds of other ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle and ...

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...

They were admitted to hospital, and on November 14, officials confirmed that tests showed infection with an H5N5 avian ...

A years-long bird flu outbreak is still impacting many turkey farms, but that doesn't mean it's impacting the turkey you are ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially ended its H5N1 bird flu emergency response on July 2, 2025, after a gradual decline in reported cases and no new human infections ...

A strain of bird flu never seen in humans has infected a Washington state resident and left the person hospitalized, state health authorities said. Washington State Department of Health authorities ...

Bird flu may be particularly severe in humans because it is resistant to one of the body’s most important defence systems, a ...