Even short-term EU restrictions on Poland's poultry imports will deal a heavy blow to the industry, incurring unprecedented ...

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

Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High Plains.

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, which has ...

Although the rate of increase appears to be falling, new outbreaks of avian influenza in commercial poultry have been ...

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

In the year 2025, the H5N1 avian influenza virus emerging as a major global health risk. Once it was primarily affecting ...

Knowing where, when and for how long mallard ducks – natural carriers of avian influenza – stop and rest as they migrate can ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...

With its continued spread and mutations, veterinarians and virologists interviewed warn this outbreak could become a new pandemic.

The continued outbreak of bird flu has resulted in the culling of more than 30 million poultry birds across nine states this year. That’s about 10 million more than the last quarter of 2024.