The following chart created by Newsweek using Flourish shows global cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans from 2015 to 2023, according to WHO data. The CDC, in a statement announcing the first U.S ...

Over the past three years, avian influenza (H5N1) has spread around the U.S. and affected many species of birds and mammals, ...

A chart from the CDC on how backyard chickens could spread avian flu. The CDC recommends people handling sick birds or cleaning out a coop after an outbreak don full PPE: goggles, respirator ...

Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of ...

Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has ...

Another study about bird flu in domestic cats was also not published. But a chart showing bird flu illness in cats and people was apparently included by accident in the report about Los Angeles ...

So far, 70 human cases have been confirmed, according to the CDC. Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been ...

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there was in the winter. Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low ...