Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections ...

Bird flu has been found in all states, including Ingham County. So should you be refilling your backyard bird feeder this ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission and ...

It was a first for cows last March when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the highly pathogenic avian flu virus ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has caused the most damage to poultry in recent years, as well as the death of one person, although H7N9 has had a "high death rate for humans worldwide," according to ...

A team of scientists found that the H5N1 virus, also known as bird flu, is becoming more adept at infecting mammals. That ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain.