The US Department of Health and Human Services said on Friday it would award $306 million in funds to help bird flu monitoring, as the virus spreads in dairy herds and farm workers across the country, ...
Vaccination drastically reduces avian influenza outbreaks in ducks, but enhanced passive surveillance is crucial for timely ...
As more cases of bird flu are reported across species and locations, states across the country are taking precautionary ...
The rise of bird flu across farms in California has raised questions about the virus and its potential threat to humans.
The HPAI H5N1 virus has spread globally, infecting birds, mammals, and some humans. Most human cases are mild.
“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can ...
As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different influenza viruses mix.
After the state of California began testing dairy herds for highly pathogenic avian influenza (known also as bird flu or H5N1 ...
Public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe bird flu cases in two North American patients.
Public-health experts have been highly critical of the federal and state response to the virus, which was first identified in ...
In this opinion piece, Doug Ensley, DVM, the director of U.S. veterinary public health for Boehringer Ingelheim, stresses the ...