A virologist explains that why this probably isn’t the big one — but that it’s a sign of bad things happening with the virus.

National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) and the Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (ODVL) at Oregon State ...

The preliminary results will have to be confirmed by the National Veterinary Service Laboratories, which could take well into ...

The UK has ordered five million vaccines against bird flu - dubbed "one mutation from being the next Covid" - just as Britons ...

A 2.5-year-old returning to Australia from India was infected with a reassortant H5N1 virus, revealing genetic mixing between ...

The CDC detected a change in the strain that would allow the virus to more easily travel through human airways.

There have been 61 reported human cases of the avian influenza strain known as H5N1 since April 2024, per the CDC. The individual from Louisiana who contracted the severe case has been hospitalized.

A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalised with H5N1 bird flu, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said ...

A dozen more dairy herds in California have been stricken with bird flu as the virus continues to infect animals and humans ...

Nationwide Recall of Pet Food Due to H5N1 Strain of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) Contamination After Cat Dies ...

A genetic analysis of the H5N1 bird flu in a Louisiana patient reveals potential mutations for human transmissibility, says ...

Each week some revelation about bird flu seems to flutter through the news cycle. Here's what the latest research is saying ...