The spread of H5N1 into new species alarms researchers who say it could reassort in a new species, like pigs, leading to more severe human infection.

The USDA enrolled another 15 states in a national program to test milk for highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. Image: Adobe Stock Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota ...

Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 permitted dairy farms will undergo testing once a month for H5N1, the virus commonly known as bird flu. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Chopra said she and other researchers at Wayne State are close to finishing work on an H5N1 test that can be used to easily determine whether a person has the virus. "Having learned from the COVID ...

Distressingly, there is little confidence among scientists that the United States is ready to handle an H5N1 outbreak ... ready and rapid diagnostic test kits widely available.

Cows in Nevada have been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu different from the strain detected in all other herds to this point in the ongoing dairy outbreak. It's the same strain that killed a ...

But those tests cannot detect bird flu. Testing for H5N1 avian influenza requires a second test that most hospitals and health-care facilities do not have. Hospital staff and clinicians should ...

The team has developed specialized tools and animal models to test prophylactic vaccines and therapeutic antivirals. In the recent study, they compared H5N1 strains isolated from a human patient ...

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has issued a new health advisory, guiding providers to test for avian influenza in hospitalized ... The new recommendations come amid concerns that the ...

Subtyping can help avoid delays in identifying H5N1 infections, which are more likely when seasonal flu activity is high, as it is now, according to the HAN. A test that is positive for influenza ...