Avian flu in dairy cows could stick around on US farms forever, and is raising the risk of outbreaks in mammals—including ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, refers to the disease caused by infection with Type A viruses. The Alabama Department of Public Health reports these viruses occur naturally among wild aquatic birds ...

Last Friday, the Missouri health department announced a recent human case of bird flu. What’s unsettling about the case is that the patient — hospitalized on August 22 and later released — is the ...

Several labs will work with federal health authorities to develop a test for avian influenza, as the number of human cases ...

Health officials say they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu, but they believe it may be a rare instance of a ...

Epidemiologists have not yet identified exactly how a person in Missouri contracted bird flu last week, said the U.S. Centers ...

Until recently, every human case of avian flu this year involved people who came in contact with infected poultry or cows.

As H5N1 continues to spread on farms, there are fears the mistakes of the last four years are bound to be repeated.

Scientists are increasingly concerned about zoonotic diseases in the post-Covid-19 era. Human activities and climate change ...

The case was identified through Missouri’s seasonal flu surveillance program. The program flags cases that don’t match any ...

A few summers ago, when a merlin flew over our backyard bird feeder in Kingston – not even a merlin, but the shadow of a ...