An avian influenza pandemic remains within the realm of possibility. To reduce the risk, we need to engage in a One Health ...

Bacteriologist and parasitologist Michelle Jakaitis uses a microscope to view a training sample of veligers, which are the ...

A widespread outbreak of H5N1 bird flu has devastated California’s ....USDA to distribute over $230 million in emergency relief payments ...

Members stated, “avian flu is dangerous and uncontrolled. Instead of moving forward with promising vaccines, however, your department has endorsed unorthodox and untested strategies to contain ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The ...

What Would It Take for Bird Flu to Spread among Humans? The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another question ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially ended its emergency response to the recent bird flu outbreak.

Bird flu was detected in milk from a Maricopa County dairy herd. Pasteurized milk and dairy products remained safe for consumption. The risk to the general public was low.

The risk to the public remained low, but people in close contact with dairy cattle may be at an increased risk, the state agriculture department said.