HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

The risk to the public remained low, but people in close contact with dairy cattle may be at an increased risk, the state ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

A 36-year-old woman, admitted to intensive care, is the latest in a string of new infections in the last 10 days ...

Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has sporadically been reported in wild birds, poultry and dairy cows across the United States, Canada and some other countries.

Health officials are urging vigilance as reports of bird flu cases in humans appear to have stopped. In the last 14 months, infections have been reported in 70 people in the U.S. — most of them ...

That makes the arrival of bird flu on a dairy farm a slow-motion disaster. The incentives for farmers to cooperate remain dismal. Research by experts at Cornell University suggests bird flu can ...

Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, ... She is the author of the book "Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind Control," published by Hopkins Press.

Bird Flu coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field. Skip to main content. Scientific American. Bird Flu. Bird Flu June 27, 2025.

What is bird flu? It’s an influenza virus officially known as H5N1 ... Rivers, the Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, recently published a book on preventing outbreaks called “Crisis Averted. ...

Future Concern: Bird Flu. Unless you work with animals, you can probably breathe easy here. To date, there haven’t been any cases of human-to-human transmission of H5N1, or bird flu.