Here's what the latest research is saying about how it is spreading and how to keep yourself and your pets safe.

H5N1, the bird flu virus behind the ongoing ... Birds shed the virus through their saliva, mucus and feces, and it can become airborne when their litter and feathers are churned up in barns ...

Raw Milk Is Risky, but Airborne Transmission of H5N1 from Cow's Milk Is Inefficient in Mammals July 8, 2024 — While H5N1 avian influenza virus taken from infected cow's milk makes mice and ...

Health officials are alarmed by a mutated H5N1 bird flu virus in a Louisiana patient, raising concerns about potential human transmission. Genetic changes in the virus may enhance its ability to ...

Genetic sequences of H5N1 bird flu viruses collected from a person in Louisiana who became severely ill show signs of development of several mutations thought to affect the virus’ ability to ...

Concern over bird flu is growing among some health experts. This bird virus, H5N1, uh, is circulating widely. In, uh, uh, domestic poultry and on dairy farms. One point of concern is the spread of ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as H5N1 bird flu, was confirmed in the flock of 24 birds in Franklin County after samples taken on Dec. 19 were tested by laboratory in Iowa ...

(CNN) — A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country’s first severe case of H5N1 bird flu show the virus likely mutated in the patient to ...

The US hasn’t learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird flu that keep showing signs of their own pandemic potential ...

A genetic analysis of samples from the Louisiana patient who was recently hospitalized with the country’s first severe case of H5N1 bird flu shows that the virus likely mutated in the patient to ...