At the start of 2025, health officials in Louisiana reported the first U.S. bird flu death and experts questioned whether ...

Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention — and political obstacles to research could hamper progress.

After starting the year with its first known bird flu death, the US expanded its efforts to contain the virus, which enabled ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, mainly caused by the H5N1 virus, is sparking fresh worry in India, with recent outbreaks ...

A study conducted by Iowa State University researchers, in partnership with the National Animal Disease Center, suggests bird ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship on Tuesday confirmed a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) notes that Avian flu has a variant of the virus that has led to an unprecedented number of deaths in wild birds and poultry in many countries, but particularly in ...

In partnership with the Marine Mammal Center and NOAA, the implementation of the bird flu vaccine in marine mammals was ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus—commonly known as bird flu—has been causing outbreaks in dairy cows in the United States since March 2024. Now, scientists studying the adaptation of the avian H5N1 ...

The genetic sequencing of the bird flu virus detected in a Dodge County dairy herd earlier this month indicates it was a new ...

A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the devastation of COVID-19, if the H5N1 virus mutates to spread easily ...

A large commercial flock of poultry will be culled after bird flu was discovered at a farm in Worcestershire. The Department ...