Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...

Researchers at Texas Biomed identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is ...

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in ...

At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

On Monday, Louisiana health officials announced that a person hospitalized last month with a severe case of avian influenza — ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...

Though H5N1 has been circulating nationwide in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals since 2022, you may have only been ...

California county fairs and shows will no longer include poultry and dairy cattle exhibitions as the state deals with the ...

A California man's tragic story highlights the growing risks associated with bird flu infections in domestic animals.J ...