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

Avian flu spread in cows not being tracked, posing greater risk of human transmission. Mark Lyons, a senior USDA animal health official, said federal officials are “still working closely to ...

While avian flu is currently infecting US poultry at record high levels, experts at Yale maintain that the threat to humans is still low — although public health officials should remain vigilant with ...

A strain of bird flu that has jumped from animals to people in the United States could find its way to Europe, EU scientists have warned in a new report. EU-US trade of “raw milk” products and wild ...

There is variability in the airborne transmission of HPAI, making it difficult to pinpoint contamination sources and ...

As avian influenza sweeps the nation — infecting more than 58.3 million poultry and 6,192 wild birds in the U.S. as of Wednesday, per the CDC — infectious disease experts are watching closely ...

Ferret study shows bird flu found in US cows carries low risk of airborne transmission Study shows avian influenza strain found in US cows not easily transmitted through air, but it is possible.

While H5N1 avian influenza virus taken from infected cow’s milk makes mice and ferrets sick when dripped into their noses, airborne transmission of the virus between ferrets — a common model for human ...

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Since the first avian influenza outbreak, in 1997, 4 there has been concern that the influenza A (H5N1) virus might either mutate and adapt to allow efficient transmission during the infection of ...