roughly around the same time a commercial duck farm in Georgia detected the state’s first confirmed H5N1 infection. Early this year, two commercial chicken flocks had positive bird flu cases.

“The risk of H5N1 in the food supply is very low ... make it off a commercial farm before the outbreak is detected.” Georgia’s $7.75 billion commercial poultry industry is one of the ...

Experts from the Global Virus Network (GVN), which includes human and animal virologists from more than 40 countries, say the next pandemic could come from a familiar source: H5N1 avian influenza, ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

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

The GVN calls on world governments to address the threat of H5N1 avian influenza by enhancing surveillance, implementing biosecurity measures, and preparing for potential human-to-human transmission.

The risk to human health is expected to rise as H5N1 evolves to better infect mammals, the study finds. This rapid adaptation means that "an H5N1 vaccine made (for an earlier strain) will have ...