Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human ...

The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.

Just how deadly is the H5N1 avian flu? The virus, which is currently sweeping through U.S. dairy herds, rarely jumps to human ...

The deadly bird flu virus, H5N1, has been detected in the wastewater of 10 Texas cities, signaling a silent spread that could ...

On Monday state officials announced they had completed testing on all 95 licensed farms in Massachusetts that have dairy ...

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man ...

As of Friday, all that was known about the Missouri case was that the individual was infected with an H5 virus. The CDC was ...

Aug. 20, 2024 — Scientists have discovered why the flu vaccine can perform poorly. They found that a specific type of immune cell, called T follicular helper cells, indirectly controls the anti ...

A new survey of epidemiology and infectious diseases experts evaluate how prepared we are for disease outbreaks and overall ...

SCIENTISTS are racing to understand how someone became infected with H5 bird flu ... a global pandemic. The new case was detected through the state of Missouri's seasonal flu surveillance ...

While authorities are downplaying the dangers of the H5N1 virus, it can evolve very rapidly and every spillover event into ...

Given all of these unknowns, it would be both premature and immoral to sound the alarm about the next pandemic. At the same time, bird flu is a real and growing concern, and the current state of ...