A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes ...

The plight of flightless birds in an avian flu drama has drawn in members of Trump’s administration, right-wing influencers ...

“Given that some lactating cows’ “steal milk” through self-nursing or mutual-nursing, they speculated that “mouth-to-teat” ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N subtypes. Only those labeled ...

The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy worker in May 2024 is capable of airborne transmission, according to new research from the CDC.

Over the past three years, avian influenza (H5N1) has spread around the U.S. and affected many species of birds and mammals, including humans. Experts at a recent webinar offered answers to common ...

What is bird flu? What to know about the avian flu and the risk to humans. Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was ...