However, another strain of flu that often makes headlines is the bird flu, also known as avian influenza. While both bird flu and regular flu are caused by influenza viruses, their origins ...

Flu can also trigger sepsis, an extreme, body-wide immune reaction. Runaway inflammation driven by sepsis can lead to tissue damage and fatal organ failure. Bird flu, or avian influenza ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...

Current Antivirals Likely Less Effective Against Severe Infection Caused by Bird Flu Virus in Cows' Milk Mar. 17, 2025 — Existing antivirals may be less effective against this H5N1 bird flu ...

2:25 ‘No need to panic:’ Close to 100 birds found dead in Brampton from suspected avian flu Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. "Holy cow," says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the Univer ...

A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of the virus, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's Health Ministry ...

Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts, according to researchers. This is a KFF Health News story. Aggressive deportation tactics have terrorized farmworkers at the center of the ...

Bird Flu In India: As India continues to grapple with rising cases of H5N1, also known as Bird Flu infections, experts have warned that this virus has the potential to trigger another COVID-like ...

New York: Several U.S. Department of Agriculture employees who worked on the agency's bird flu response will leave at the end of April, straining the federal capacity to monitor the spread of the ...

It added that the risk to humans remained very low. By Stephen Castle Reporting from London Bird flu has infected a sheep in Britain in what the government on Monday described as the first case of ...

A United Nations food agency warned that the continued spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus is an unprecedented food security risk that requires a coordinated global response. In a briefing held on ...