A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals, only about a third of the seals normally expected here ...

A teenager in British Columbia, Canada has been hospitalized with a presumed case of H5N1 bird flu, the first detected human ...

New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to spread and cause severe symptoms in other mammals.

Although travel restrictions and social measures during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a dramatic global drop in seasonal influenza cases, certain influenza lineages in specific regions kept the virus ...

The health agency now urges proactive testing and treatment for the virus among any workers who were exposed to H5N1.

Oct. 28, 2024 — A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, ... Aug. 19, 2024 — The ...

An epidemiological study found that 56 percent of a large breeding colony of Caspian terns died from a 2023 outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at Rat Island in Washington state. Researchers ...

Federal officials said Thursday that farmworkers exposed to bird flu should be tested for the virus even if they are not ...

After a new study showed that bird flu has spread to dairy farm workers more often than previously known, the US Centers for ...

A new study found that a small but not insignificant number of bird flu infections are going undetected among farm workers ...

It’s believed that the disease spread because the livestock and poultry shared the same water supply, housing and equipment.