The UK has confirmed a case of H5N1 influenza of avian origin in a sheep in Yorkshire, in a world first. The infection in the animal was identified through routine and repeated milk testing, which was ...

Avian influenza is “evolving in ways we haven’t seen before,” says Martha Nelson, a computational biologist and staff scientist researching pathogen evolution at the National Institutes of ...

Since 2022, H5N1 has been infecting chickens, cows, wild birds and cats — among several other animals. With a record number of human cases in the U.S., the situation is getting increasingly ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

Soon after the discovery of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) strain H5N1 in dairy cattle, scientists learned that milk was a primary vector in spreading the disease from cow to cow. Soon after ...

A Mississippi poultry farm has reported the United States' first outbreak of the highly pathogenic H7N9 bird flu strain since 2017, prompting federal health authorities to cull more than 47,000 birds ...

H5N1 antigenic drift, binding affinity By examining the virus' rampant host-shifting and recent mutations comprehensively, researchers find "the continuous transmission of H5N1 from birds to ...

With H5N1 avian influenza spreading in poultry flocks, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is pushing a new plan: let the virus rip. Kennedy recently told Fox News that ...

A nationwide egg shortage has sent prices soaring at your local grocery store—and the culprit is H5N1 bird flu. The virus has infected poultry flocks in every US state, with more than 166 ...

Watch out! A glass of raw milk may contain more than just nutrients—it could also carry dangerous viruses like H5N1 bird flu. In April 2024, the FDA found H5N1 bird flu in raw (unpasteurized ...

A predicted interaction between a human antibody (in green; FLD194) and an avian influenza HA protein (in yellow; GISAID: EPI3158642). Rendered by Colby Ford with Blender and Molecular Nodes.

Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Pasteurisation has been proven to inactivate the influenza H5N1 virus, rendering pasteurised cow milk ...