FOR years, scientists have warned that bird flu could one day spill over from birds to humans, triggering a global health ...

Learn about a new simulation that shows human-to-human transmission of H5N1 will become uncontainable if we miss the narrow ...

New research shows that genetic changes in modern H5N1 viruses improve their ability to infect bovine cells, helping explain ...

Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus—commonly known as bird flu—has been causing outbreaks in dairy cows in the United States since ...

Scientists have warned H5N1 bird flu could make a dangerous leap to humans, triggering a global health crisis.

Finding that vampire bats along Peru’s coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises concerns that multiple bat species could become ...

Even as the bird flu virus H5N1 is evolving rapidly, with the potential to become a significant threat to human health, a ...

Waterfowl fall migration continues to peak, and there is a greater risk of spreading the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ...

A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the devastation of COVID-19, if the H5N1 virus mutates to spread easily ...

When bird flu spilled over into dairy cattle last year, researchers discovered high concentrations of the H5N1 virus in the ...

A new international study has found that the H5N1 avian flu virus is gradually becoming better adapted to infect cattle. This ...