The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy worker in May 2024 is capable of airborne transmission, according to ...

in mammals more than doubled across the world last year, raising the risk that the virus could potentially spread between ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is commonly called “bird flu.” This disease began in the mid-1990s in Asia and has ...

Research on H9N2 avian influenza shows extensive genetic changes, raising public health concerns and emphasizing the need for ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza reached Antarctica’s mainland in early 2024, leaving Australia, New Zealand and Pacific ...

The bird flu virus remains a wild card that continues to threaten U.S. poultry and egg supplies while upping the ante with risk to human health.

A new study published in Nature Microbiology has uncovered significant genetic and antigenic diversity among H9N2 avian ...

Shah: This is a highly pathogenic avian influenza, H5N1—what people are commonly referring to as the bird flu. Influenza, in general, small changes in the genetic structure of the virus can lead ...

The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the avian influenza virus ...

A non-peer-reviewed UK study found live H5N1 can persist in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and a week in the ...

The first known case of H5N1 avian flu in a person was in 1997 ... Messer says one interesting aspect of the virus’s structure is that it can pair well with lots of different host enzymes ...