Minnesota and Iowa were added to the National Milk Testing Strategy on Jan. 8. There are now 36 states involved in the ...

A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of Pittsburgh and NIH Vaccine Research Center researchers report today in ...

Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 permitted dairy farms will undergo testing once a month for H5N1, the virus commonly known as bird flu. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The spread of H5N1 into new species alarms researchers who say it could reassort in a new species, like pigs, leading to more ...

As cases of H5N1 bird flu rise across the U.S., some of us may be more immune to the virus than others. Many people may have immune cells called "T cells" primed and ready to fight the "highly ...

On Dec. 6, the sample tested positive for H5N1 bird flu. A second test conducted by a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory confirmed the presence of the virus on Dec. 18. Asked about the test ...

The CDC and MDH are advising health care providers to order further laboratory testing on positive influenza A specimens ...

This story, like the virus it is about ... the US response to H5N1. Most of this money will be intended for preparedness efforts, such as ensuring that hospitals have adequate supplies, training, and ...

But reinfections suggest that the virus, called H5N1, could circulate on farms indefinitely ... The U.S.D.A.’s program to test bulk milk began in December — nearly a year after the outbreak ...

Scientists also know a lot more about H5N1 bird flu than they did the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the US has been ... are monitoring farm workers who test positive and following everyone they’ve ...

Different blends of those two proteins alongside many other combinations of mutations elsewhere in the virus can affect how sick people and animals get and how it spreads. H5N1 has been the ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 66 confirmed H5N1 infections [as of Dec. 31, 2024] in U.S. poultry and dairy workers who caught the virus through ...