A report released in late March by the Journal of Wildlife Diseases has confirmed the discovery of the H5N1 (avian flu) virus ...

Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings has won U.S. Food and Drug Administration fast-track designation for its ARCT-2304 pandemic flu vaccine candidate.

Culling of chickens due to bird flu and increasing demand has led to a spike in egg prices and given vegan alternatives ...

Culling of chickens due to bird flu and increasing demand has led to a spike in egg prices and given vegan alternatives something to crow about. This ...

As part of ongoing work related to pandemic prevention and preparedness, WHO held a consultation on public health risk mitigation through A(H5N1) vaccines in September, 2024, which reviewed licensed ...

Mexico has detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday.

Both cats tested positive for bird flu in spring of 2024 and lived in households with individuals working on dairy farms who chose not to get tested for HPAI A(H5N1). Highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Location for shared common files and common go code to manage those files in github.com/containers repos. The common files to one or more projects in the containers ...

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 ...