Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther all died after being ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

Even though the official tally of human cases in the U.S. is most certainly an undercount, there's still no evidence this strain of H5N1 has spread widely among us. But if the virus gains certain ...

Complex Pandemic Accord negotiations have been under way since 2021, with 13 formal meetings and numerous informal sessions.

“This is how pandemics start.” This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal pandemic—status, killing birds in every ...

The result? Pseudoscience that’s not just harming human health. It’s killing animals, too, specifically via H5N1 bird flu. Holistic pet health influencers, organic farmers, and alternative ...

Type A H5N1 influenza has been spreading through animals and some people in the United States. Bird flu has been detected in a variety of bird populations since January 2022, and in March of last ...

Bird flu is changing fast and could become more dangerous to humans, new research from the University of North Carolina at ...

Avian flu – H5N1 – has spread to other species including cattle and ... You can tell it’s a person because when the squirrels ...

Intranasal influenza virus-vectored vaccine offers protection against clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 infection in small animal models. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58504-z ...