Lincoln Park Zoo said the specific source of the exposure of the animals to bird flu, or H5N1 virus, is not known.

Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

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

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

The Hawaii Department of Health today said it has detected “very low levels” of H5 avian influenza in wastewater samples collected last month from the Lihue Wastewater Treatment Plant on Kauai.

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

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

A child in California is presumed to have H5N1 bird flu, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Experts ...

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

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 ...

The Chilean flamingo, named Teal, hatched last fall and died Jan. 8. The 7-year-old harbor seal, named Slater, died the next ...