New test for bird flu provides results before the virus spreads In March, the UK’s chief veterinary officer confirmed that ...

We take you inside the research lab at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on the front line of the fight against the avian ...

Scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center, with multiple academic, state and ...

California and the CDC are attempting to incentivize avian flu testing with gift cards and a traveling CDC testing van.

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

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

Emphasis on biosecurity, rapid response and vaccine research are areas continuing to receive government funding and focus in ...

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

Questions are answered by experts at the Oregon Health Authority, other state agencies or community partners. Questions and ...

A recent study has confirmed that the spread of avian influenza (H5N1) in U.S. dairy cattle began with just one wild bird infection. This event, traced back to Texas in 2023, led to undetected ...

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 ...

Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or vaccinated for the avian flu.