At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It's a sign that ...

If you’re aware of the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cattle — you may have seen some headlines or read something on social media — perhaps you are wondering what the fuss is about.

Bird flu has caused the deaths of over 100 million birds in the U.S. poultry industry and almost half a billion farmed birds worldwide, and scientists are concerned that the virus is changing and b… ...

What is bird flu? It’s an influenza virus officially known as H5N1 ... Rivers, the Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, recently published a book on preventing outbreaks called “Crisis Averted. ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has left the U.S. reeling as it tries to manage the deadliest bird flu outbreak in history. The PBS NewsHour’s William Brangham joined Nicole Ellis to explain the ...

Future Concern: Bird Flu. Unless you work with animals, you can probably breathe easy here. To date, there haven’t been any cases of human-to-human transmission of H5N1, or bird flu.

That makes the arrival of bird flu on a dairy farm a slow-motion disaster. The incentives for farmers to cooperate remain dismal. Research by experts at Cornell University suggests bird flu can ...

Since early 2022, nearly 170 million farmed birds have died or been killed in the U.S. due to bird flu outbreaks, equivalent to roughly half the country’s human population.

We often call the avian influenza virus currently infecting cattle by its nickname, H5N1 bird flu. But its full name is “highly pathogenic avian influenza A H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b genotype B3.13.” ...

Birds are a critical part of the ecosystem. If they can’t survive on the North American continent or in the world, other life forms may not make it either.

In today’s Health Alert, a ban on relocating birds in Michigan due to the bird flu outbreak is raising concerns about Swimmer ...

To respond to cases in Pennsylvania, state officials rely on guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s so-called Red Book on highly pathogenic avian influenza infections, which was last ...