While rare, bird flu has infected over 140 cats since 2022, according to government data. Here's how to protect your pets.

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

From the outset of the Trump administration, bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has flown rather conspicuously — and in fact ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...

Cambodia's Ministry of Health recently confirmed the country's twelfth human case of H5N1 avian influenza so far this year.

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH’s Medical Collection to decode ...

Despite pleas from pigeon fanciers, the EU isn’t loosening its grip on avian flu rules just yet, keeping racing pigeons ...