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.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United ...

“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can ...

January 5, 2025 - Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it would award $306 million ...

A virologist explains that why this probably isn’t the big one — but that it’s a sign of bad things happening with the virus.

In 2024, at least 66 human cases of bird flu have been reported in the United States, each one raising the risk of another ...

New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) suggests that many people already have immune cells ...

CDC has asserted that the risk to general public is considerably low, and that there has not been any spread of the bird flu from the patients ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is keeping close eye on pandemic indicators amid bird flu cases arising in the ...

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

Genetic analysis of H5N1 bird flu virus that infected a Canadian teenager shows 'worrisome' mutations, new studies reveal.

Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1) remains a low risk to the general public, and public health ...