A new vaccine to protect dairy and poultry workers from bird flu does not require a needle and works against multiple strains ...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

A person in Washington is presumed infected with bird flu virus. Health officials in the state do not know the source.

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild birds, agriculture, and mammals. Unlike previous outbreaks, aggressive culling ...

New findings published in the journal Nature, led by a clinical microbiologist, Kelvin To, at the University of Hong Kong, ...

A new simulation shows that environmental changes across Asia’s major bird migration route could accelerate viral evolution and increase the risk of dangerous flu strains emerging. Study: Landscape ...

Since first being detected in Newfoundland in 2021, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI A(H5Nx), has had a ...

Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, ...

The move by U.S. health officials to start makinga vaccine against the new strain of bird flu is a good idea, regardless of whether the virus ultimately changes, as flu viruses often do, experts say.

Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human ...