Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

Dozens of newly confirmed cases of avian influenza in wild birds and the first verified U.S. case of a new strain of the ...

there are new concerns about bird flu as a new strain was discovered at a duck farm. The different, rarer sub-type of the ...

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.

The virus was reported in a commercial flock of ducks. It’s the first time the subtype has been detected in the United States ...

The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Salon H5N1 and other avian influenza viruses are a type A ... of the New York Institute ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking about a ...

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.