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

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there ...

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

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

Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can infect each other with this strain of the virus.

The study’s results indicated the cumulative incidence of influenza – or the number of new cases divided by the total number ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

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

A three-year-old girl has become Mexico's first human fatality from H5N1 bird flu, health officials said on Tuesday ... and contaminated environments. "This virus does not appear to transmit easily ...

"It's just daunting, and the uncertainty about what's happening around you does ... human case of bird flu on Nov. 9, 2024. The teenage patient became very ill, and spent two months in a B.C. hospital ...