A 65-year-old patient in Louisiana died after contracting the H5N1 strain of bird flu, with an expert warning that the virus ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

As spikes in a respiratory virus and images of overwhelmed intensive care units emerge, there is a worrying echo of the early days of Covid. Zoë Beaty asks if Beijing is downplaying what is happening ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in ...

A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator.

COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and norovirus—have created what experts are calling a "quad-demic" in the U.S. Here's what to know ...

Though H5N1 has been circulating nationwide in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals since 2022, you may have only been ...

How deadly is the bird flu? The US has reported its first death from avian influenza, H5N1. Here's what to know about bird ...

The most common kind of bird flu is the H5N1 strain ... A few cases of severe pneumonia and death have been reported in China. Doctors can’t diagnose bird flu just by your symptoms.

The first case of the H5N1 virus, known as bird flu, in the U.S. was reported earlier ... so the CDC has been carefully tracking and announcing new mutations discovered in the virus.

Scientists also know a lot more about H5N1 bird flu than they did the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the US has been preparing for the threat of a new flu outbreak ... in Southern China in 1996.

With reports of the first human death from bird flu ... s not a new virus. Scientists have been tracking it for almost three decades. It was first identified in geese in Southern China in 1996.