Dairy workers across the United States face a growing occupational health risk as the number of confirmed human bird flu cases climbs to 71 since February 2024, according to the CDC. The infections ...

Los Angeles County health officials have documented the first known transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) ...

In most cases, it is unlikely that humans will catch bird flu. However, farmers, poultry workers, veterinarians, and others ...

As the deadly H5N1 virus makes landfall in Australia, experts hope strong biosecurity will protect poultry and dairy cattle ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that testing of a person with a severe case of bird flu indicated the virus had mutated when compared with samples taken from infected ...

At the start of 2025, health officials in Louisiana reported the first U.S. bird flu death and experts questioned whether highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) could lead to the next pandemic. A ...

Over a chicken lunch, author Michael Dulaney explains why a “nightmare” scenario that could accompany the latest strain of ...

But our birds are in a bit of trouble at the moment, because of a thing called bird flu. Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a ...

As 2024 came to an end, bird flu dominated headlines. The virus, technically known as avian influenza, was being detected in raw milk, dairy farms and even children, my colleagues Susanne Rust and ...

The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?