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 Stays Stable on Milking Equipment for at Least One Hour June 27, 2024 — H5N1 virus in unpasteurized milk is stable on metal and rubber components of commercial milking equipment for at ...

Last Friday, the Missouri health department announced a recent human case of bird flu. What’s unsettling about the case is that the patient — hospitalized on August 22 and later released — is the ...

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

The Taliban has suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the Associated Press (AP) reported today, based on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it has yet to identify “a clear source” of infection in a ...

The number of California dairy herds reported to have outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu has grown to eight.

The case is concerning because it's the first human case this year not tied to a known exposure to animals. Before now, all ...

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.

In a case that continues to confound scientists, U.S. health officials said Thursday that they still don't know how a ...

A person sickened by bird flu in Missouri was probably an isolated case, federal health officials said Thursday, though they ...

Health officials say they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu, but they believe it may be a rare instance of a ...