If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

BIRD flu has been detected in an English farm, it’s been announced. A case of the H5N1 bird flu was found in poultry in West Yorkshire. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ...

The Louisiana Department of Health on Monday reported the first bird flu-related human death in the United States. Why It Matters. Bird flu (H5N1) has been transmitted from animals to humans in ...

Bird flu in humans hasn't officially been seen in U.S. in 3 months: "We just don't know why" May 19, 2025 / 9:01 AM EDT / CBS/AP ... One person died in Louisiana.

In the unlikely, but possible, event of a bird flu pandemic in humans, there are other lessons to be learned from COVID-19. Strategies to keep schools open and businesses working will be essential.

In January, an elderly resident of Louisiana with underlying medical conditions became the first person to die of bird flu in the U.S. after being exposed to sick birds. 166 million birds destroyed ...

A second strain of bird flu—known as D1.1—recently spread from wild birds and poultry to cows in Nevada. A dairy worker in Nevada subsequently tested positive for this strain.

The Louisiana health department said last week it would stop ... Pharmaceutical company Moderna is also developing a bird flu vaccine for humans and has received about $766 million from the U.S ...

H5N1 bird flu is branching out. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that a second type of H5N1 has likely spread from dairy cows to humans.

The variant of bird flu that killed a Louisiana resident has now been found in dairy cows. ... The USDA has determined that pasteurized milk will not transmit this H5N1 virus to humans.