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

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 ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...

Last week, that number was clearly higher than the peak of any winter flu season since 2009-2010, when a swine flu pandemic hit the nation, according to data posted Friday morning by the Centers ...

Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High Plains.

Khan told us every new infection increases the odds bird flu could lead to severe disease – as we saw during COVID. In North America, six people now have ended up in the hospital with bird flu.

Hence it became known as “Spanish flu.” By June influenza reached from Algeria to New Zealand. Still, a 1927 study concluded, “In many parts of the world the first wave either was so faint ...

The UK reports its first-ever case of reverse zoonosis—human flu infecting a pig—raising alarms about factory farming public ...