Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...

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

One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable ...

Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...

On Jan. 6, 2025, Louisiana state health officials reported the first U.S. bird flu death. The person was older than 65, had underlying health problems and had been in contact with sick and dead birds ...

This is posing severe risks to livestock, wildlife, and humans. USDA is maintaining heightened biosecurity measures to ...

The Philippines reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu among backyard ducks, the World Organisation for ...

A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.

More should be done to control the spread of bird flu among animals to avoid more cases in humans, the World Organisation for ...

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

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 ...