If you want to excite public health officials, ask them about the H5N1 avian influenza virus. This flu virus has been ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

A ‘highly pathogenic’ strain of bird flu, known as H5N1, is already spreading rapidly ... It has also spread to farmed mink in Spain and sea lions in Peru. Monitoring and surveillance in ...

Both nations are signatories to the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, a Trump baby that the president hailed as the “fairest, most balanced and modern trade agreement ever achieved ...

A first-of-its-kind study has found that in US communities where drinking water is contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), there’s also an increased incidence of some ...

The first confirmed case of the rare H5N9 bird flu has been reported in the U.S. The virus was confirmed in a commercial duck farm in Merced County, California, according to the World Organization ...

A surge in H5N1 virus cases among pets, particularly cats, has raised alarms about raw pet food safety. The virus, devastating bird populations nationwide since 2022, has infected cats through ...

UK Health Security Agency this afternoon confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. Bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza is rare and has previously ...

H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads In US: Highly infectious H5N1 virus, also known as the bird flu virus has tightened its grip on the United States. For the first time, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In his 2012 bestseller “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic ...

Bird flu, also known as Avian influenza or H5N1, is a disease that has been on the watch list of scientists and epidemiologists for its potential to become a serious threat to humans. COVID-19’s ...

One such H5 bird flu is the H5N1 virus currently causing an outbreak of bird flu across the U.S.—killing which has killed one person to date— and the H5N6 bird flu currently spreading around ...