But it's rare for the bird flu to be transferred from one human to another, according to the AAFP. In order to do so, the virus must transform into a human flu virus.

Bird flu led to the deaths of nearly 50 million domestic birds in 2024 and more than 19 million already this year, according to USDA. Any poultry farm where the virus is detected must put all its ...

Bird flu has spread widely in poultry, causing egg shortages. Virus spillover has occurred in various mammal species, including humans. H5N1 does not currently have the ability to spread human to ...

As bird flu continues to spread across the United States, questions have emerged about the risk of contracting the virus from milk and eggs.. More than 150 million poultry birds have been killed ...

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 ...

Last year, bird flu killed more than 40 million egg-laying birds. Including ducks and chickens, 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized since H5N1 began spreading around the U.S. in 2022 ...

Bird flu has infected 700 dairy farms in 15 states since March, including 26 Texas, 64 in Colorado, 2 in Oklahoma, 4 Kansas and 9 New Mexico, according to USDA data.

Globally, the World Health Organization has reported there have been at least 950 human cases of bird flu and about half have died, according to the CDC.