Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Wildlife officials are tracking a growing outbreak of avian influenza in the Texas Panhandle, with confirmed cases in both ...

Recent testing has detected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in mammal species in six Texas counties, state wildlife ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

The virus' jump to other types of mammals comes as the Trump White House has slashed jobs and budgets at the Centers for ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as avian flu or “bird ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker. There have been at least 70 cases since then.

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ... milestone in March 2024 when the CDC declared a multi-state outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows, the first time the virus emerged in a cow.