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

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This ...

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

The vast majority of strains of the virus do not infect humans. To date there have been no recorded cases of a human infected with bird flu in the ... The virus does predominantly affect birds ...

MORE: 2nd bird flu virus detected in western US. What does this mean for prevention ... it might occasionally spread when people are in close quarters -- and evolve to do so more efficiently.

In early 2024, the bird influenza ... barriers to flu transmission in the 2023 Annual Review of Virology. One of them is ...

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been ... which get and transmit the virus similarly to the way people do, Le Sage suspects that people who've had flu before—that's most people over ...