In response to a confirmed H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in Puri district, Odisha, the government has culled over 6,700 birds ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to ...

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.

A bird flu outbreak in Odisha's Puri district has led to emergency containment measures, including the culling of over 6,700 ...

The CDC ends its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu after recording 70 human cases and one death nationally, even as experts ...

H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids, but the new findings suggest it can also be transmitted through respiratory droplets and ...

UF Mobilizes Experts for Comprehensive Bird Flu Awareness While the immediate public health risk from the H5N1 bird flu ...

The Odisha state government has culled over 6,700 birds following the detection of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in Puri district's poultry farm.

Because H5N1 is a virus specifically evolved to attack birds, it isn’t as good at infecting the cells of mammals — yet. But if you can count on one thing for viruses to do, it’s mutate.

More Funding Going to Tackle HPAI H5N1, Egg Imports are Now Underway to Stabilize Supply USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says the agency is hyper-focused on poultry, but no vaccine is yet available.

But the first signs that H5N1 — or any new flu virus — was starting to spread from person to person would trigger a race to produce massive amounts of vaccine to try to mitigate the damage ...

Bird flu was probably circulating in dairy cows for at least four months before it was confirmed to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, according to a new analysis of genomic data by scientists ...