HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

Cambodia has reported its 12th human case of H5N1 bird flu this year, involving a 5-year-old boy from Kampot province, according to a translated statement shared by the University of Minnesota’s ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has ended its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, citing a drop ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been around since the 1990s, but this current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, when a low pathogenic strain mutated into a high pathogenic strain called ...

While H5N1 does not have high mortality rates in dairy cows, the infection causes decreases milk production and milk quality, ...

New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

The first hints that a new strain of avian illness is emerging could be found on this beach on Delaware Bay, where migrating birds flock. Here’s what virus detectives who return there every year ...

Chinese scientists say they have uncovered how the H5N1 virus initially invades the mammary glands of dairy cattle, ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

South Africa is grappling with a resurgence of the H5N1 bird flu, following outbreaks on poultry farms in Tswaing and Mkhondo ...