It’s an ecological wonder not seen anywhere else in the world, and a bonanza for scientists who are looking to stop the next ...

A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator.

Public health officials have warned that new mutations of bird flu with human flu could have dangerous consequences.

Avian influenza has spread far beyond the nation's birds, infecting all manner of creatures from zoo animals, wild mammals, ...

When, where and how the H5N1 bird flu virus may evolve and its capacity to spark a pandemic is hard to predict — in part, ...

At baseline, bird flu is usually severe in humans. Of the 863 reported H5N1 bird flu cases reported worldwide between 2003 ...

More than 70 percent of California’s dairy cow herds are infected with bird flu. Here’s what to know - Nearly 70 people have ...

In light of the ongoing global spread of the H5N1 avian influenza, U.S. public health experts are reassured that current ...

Meghan Davis of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health told the Washington Examiner that the scope of the bird flu epidemic among the animal population is “huge.” Since October 2021 ...

Since Dec. 2021, this highly contagious virus has infected ... The Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene is offering free testing for those who have bird-flu symptoms and have been in contact with ...

Since October 2021, H5N1 bird flu has ravaged the wild bird population, killing more than 117,000 wild birds across 315 species and 79 countries. Marine mammals have also been devastated by the ...