Bird flu has descimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds. The risk to humans is currently low, but that could easily change as influenza can rapidly change.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 67 confirmed human cases of H5N1 bird flu ...
Most of the bird flu cases reported so far in the U.S. have belonged to an influenza subtype known as HPAI H5N1. The newly ...
Waterfowl birds and their predators are especially at risk of contracting H5N1. Massachusetts has not yet reported a human ...
H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania ...
A virulent strain of bird flu continues to spread across the world. Australia, New Zealand and Pacific nations are the only ...
Other countries are using a bird flu vaccine successfully in poultry and that if we vaccinate the poulets (the young birds) ...
Q&A: From people avoiding wild birds to farmers protecting their animals, Kent State epidemiologist Dr. Tara Smith shares ...
Another late-2024 study found that viral shedding, the expulsion of viral particles, in the air related to transmissibility in mammals. A virus of H5N1 from an infected Texas dairy worker showed a low ...
Experts stressed that the new strain did not itself appear to be an immediate human threat. But the rise of a new strain is troubling and points to the risk of a viral phenomenon known as ...
While the virus hasn’t made a sustained leap into humans, vaccines and treatments are being developed ahead of an outbreak.