Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year ...

The viruses that cause seasonal flu and bird flu are distinct but still closely related. Understanding their similarities and differences can help people protect themselves and their loved ones.

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 ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b ...

Americans don't think bird flu is a threat, study suggests Date: April 18, 2025 Source: CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Summary: A team led by researchers say public ...