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 ...

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

A recent study has revealed that a single genetic change in a strain of the highly pathogenic H5 influenza virus could ...

The five available in New Zealand are Influvac Tetra, Flucelvax Quad, Fluad Quad, FluQuadri, and Afluria Quad. Drug-buying ...

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

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

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

New research from the Cleveland Clinic found higher rates of the flu in vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated. As the ...

This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.

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.

Public health and infectious disease experts say the risk to people is currently low, but they have expressed concern that this strain of the bird flu virus may mutate to spread between people.