Here’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently spread among cattle in U.S. states and marine mammals across the world, which has health ...
Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a viral infection that can cause flu in birds and sometimes spread to mammals, including humans. Migrating waterfowl (wild ducks, geese, and storks) are ...
The 2009 influenza pandemic A(H1N1)pdm09 of swine origin and the continued circulation of highly pathogenic avian H5N1 strain in humans are stark reminders of the unpredictable nature of the ...
Bird flu has been behaving very strangely lately. A strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) has been spreading in dairy cows in at least nine U.S. states. Infected cows have ...
Fresh milk on a farm. Given the 2024 multistate outbreak of H5N1 influenza among U.S. dairy cows, federal officials recommend against drinking unpasteurized (raw) milk. The amount of infectious ...
The spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 among animals is unprecedented having been found on all continents — except Oceania — with the United Nations calling it “a ...
Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found. By Apoorva Mandavilli Elephant seals in South America died in massive numbers ...
The changes raise concerns that the virus is evolving to better infect humans Credit: CDC and NIAID/AFP via Getty Images Testing of the latest human case of bird flu has revealed a “notable ...
A third human case of avian flu linked to dairy cows has been detected in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported. The new case was detected in a farmer in ...
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...
CHICAGO, June 7 (Reuters) - The outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows has now been confirmed in Minnesota and Iowa, bringing to 11 the total number of affected states, which have been encouraged ...