Kennedy Jr. for his stance on bird flu, where he opposed vaccination ... the USDA, and the CDC. Despite alignment claims from USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, the USDA has announced a $100 million ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

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

However, another strain of flu that often makes headlines is the bird flu, also known as avian influenza. While both bird flu and regular flu are caused by influenza viruses, their origins ...

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there was in the winter. Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low ...

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 ...

The viruses that cause seasonal flu and bird flu are distinct but still closely related. Understanding their similarities and differences can help people protect themselves and their loved ones.

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year ...