Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

HHS is re-evaluating a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna to develop and test vaccines against flu viruses that could ...

The pandemic served as a boot camp for Rhode Island public health officials and infectious diseases doctors, preparing them for future health crises ...

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...

SACRAMENTO, the United States -- Scientists are sounding the alarm about a concerning genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu ...

How could the virus be everywhere but still, somehow, in the CDC’s estimation, not likely to cause a pandemic? H5N1 is already a panzootic. It spreads easily among birds via their digestive ...

Yoshi Kawaoka: These strains belong to different clades, or subgroups, within the H5N1 family, which means that their genetic makeup is slightly different. Some emerged in the previous outbreaks ...

The outbreak was traced to a government poultry farm in Bokaro's Sector 12, where around 250 birds have already died ...

Bird flu outbreak in Jharkhand's Bokaro district confirmed as H5N1 strain, leading to culling and containment measures.

New infections in animals should heighten concern of human H5N1.

WE must act now to stop a bird flu pandemic and “save lives,” experts warn. The H5N1 strain has already spread from birds to ...