The public health risk remains low, but bird flu variants have proven to be unpredictable, which is why the virus is a top ...

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

Horses carry their own form of flu virus, and researchers say that if the two viruses combine, the consequences are unknown ...

Petersen said they will begin testing milk from dairy farms around Feb. 1. The department will work with labs to pull samples ...

The U.S. has developed a bird flu vaccine that can be prepared when needed. It’s not currently available because health ...

The U.S. will rebuild a stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry that match the strain of the virus circulating in ...

The bird flu virus that brought a Canadian teen to the “brink of death” may have mutated while inside her body to become more ...

Genetic sequences of H5N1 bird flu viruses collected from a person in Louisiana who became severely ill show signs of development of several mutations thought to affect the virus’ ability to ...

H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.

Here's the latest on the efforts to develop a new bird flu vaccine. Several vaccines target H5N1, and the national stockpile has doses of all of them. These shots target different strains of H5N1 ...

Federal health officials say there is no current need to authorize a bird flu vaccine for use in humans since there is no evidence the disease is spreading from person to person or causing severe ...

“Due to the ongoing impact of Highly Pathogeic Avian Influenza (HPAI, AKA Bird Flu) on poultry populations, egg supplies have been affected, leading to higher costs,” the signs rea ...