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

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

The US is facing the threat of a new pandemic, with H5N1 bird flu spreading rapidly and widely among the nation's cattle, ...

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

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.

H5N1 — the bird flu virus — demands redoubling efforts to prevent its spread to humans. As most people know, influenza is ...

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

If you really want to feed wild birds, you need to have the feeder in an area that your cat or dog is not able to access.

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

Robert Redfield, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that it is "not a question ...

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