This year in the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Nine of those became ...

The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.

Bird flu has killed millions of fowl and infected, even killed, hundreds of humans. But the jump to cattle has experts ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has picked five lab partners to develop a test for avian influenza A (H5N1) — ...

Unprecedented levels of the bird flu virus have been detected in wastewater samples from across Texas, raising alarms that the disease is adapting to infect a new host.

A patient in Missouri who was hospitalized after an infection with bird flu had the H5N1 strain of the virus, the US Centers ...

With the approach of fall and cooler weather across the United States, officials say the risk posed by the H5N1 bird ... flu viruses will be on the move. While most human infections in the current ...

New Two-Step Flu Vaccine Strategy Shows Promise in Pig Model Aug. 9, 2024 — A new, two-step flu vaccination strategy that pairs intramuscular injection of a viral vectored flu vaccine with nasal ...

The new sci-fi movie picked up the People's Choice Award at the event this year. In the past, Big Picture winners such as ...

New Insights on How Bird Flu Crosses the Species Barrier Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells.

CSL Seqirus has agreed to provide 665,000 doses of a bird flu vaccine to the European Commission as part of the EU’s efforts to prepare for a potential outbreak of the disease, with an option to ...