Scientists also know a lot more about H5N1 bird flu than they did the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the US has been preparing for the threat of a new flu outbreak for a long time. Still, the virus is ...

Greg Herbruck knew 6.5 million of his birds needed to die, and fast. But the CEO of Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch wasn’t sure how ...

H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., with different variants of that virus spreading in wild birds, poultry flocks, dairy cattle ...

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli covered the Covid-19 and mpox outbreaks, and has tracked the spread of H5N1 since 2003. When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed ...

At the center of the issue, fanning the on-going problem for poultry and dairy producers as well, is the Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1). AgriTalk Host Chip Flory ...

A big question is why is the crisis growing now? H5N1 has been documented since the mid-'90s, with scientists warning for decades that the virus had pandemic potential. Part of what's making it ...

The tools the US used to contain previous bird flu outbreaks just aren't working this time, according to some agricultural ...

A child in California is presumed to have H5N1 bird flu, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). As of Dec. 23, there had been 36 confirmed human cases of bird flu in ...

But how do researchers know that if a person tests positive for influenza A, it’s not H5N1 avian flu? “We don’t have the ability to differentiate through quick, antigen tests at this time ...