H5N1 bird flu samples collected from a severely ill patient in Louisiana show signs of mutations that may make the virus more transmissible to humans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Poultry farms in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Maryland, and Michigan have reported highly pathogenic avian influenza cases, ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is estimated to have killed at least about 52,000 seals and sea lions across South ...

New research shows potential for H5N1 avian influenza to infect and spread within the mammary glands of pigs, sheep, goats, beef cattle, alpacas and humans. When bird flu spilled over into dairy ...

A new vaccine to protect dairy and poultry workers from bird flu does not require a needle and works against multiple strains of the H5N1 virus, researchers at the University of Maryland Center for ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On November 13, Spain’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food imposed the confinement of all free-range poultry farms to ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus—commonly known as bird flu—has been causing outbreaks in dairy cows in the United States since March 2024. Now, scientists studying the adaptation of the avian H5N1 ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, a virus that spilled over from birds into marine mammals along the coast of South ...

For the first time, deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed as the cause of a wildlife die-off in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas during the 2023–2024 summers. Researchers on an Antarctic ...