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

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

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

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

Several local factors - including the minimum temperature reached in autumn, the water level in lakes and ponds in winter, ...

The strains causing widespread outbreak now – avian influenza A (H5N1) 2.3.4.4b viruses – first arose in 2020 and spread via migratory birds to Africa, Asia and Europe, according to the World ...

Study suggests the zoonotic-like avian H3N8 virus has limited efficiency for human-to-human transmission and is unlikely to cause severe disease in humans. News-Medical.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ended its emergency response to the H5N1 avian flu. A spokesperson ...

A human outbreak of avian flu raises the specter of a high mortality rate, with 55% of 258 people infected over an 11-year period ending in July in the Western Pacific succumbing to the disease, ...

The CDC said the risk level to humans is low but advised precautions for people who work in direct contact with poultry. ... The H5 avian flu outbreak is the biggest outbreak since 2014-15.