The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

Dairy herds in Nevada have been infected by a version of the H5N1 bird flu not previously seen in cows, putting virologists ...

The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the ...

Until now, all dairy herd H5N1 detections have involved the B3.13 genotype, thought to be the result of a single spillover ...

Cows in Nevada have been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu different from the strain detected in all other herds to ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

While the latest H5N1 strain isn’t known to spread among humans, it has already spilled over to more than a dozen species of wild mammals, from black bears to a bottlenose dolphin. As recently ...

When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, picking up mutations that may lead to human-to ...

The H5N1 detection in a human is the UK’s first since 2023 when surveillance detected infections in poultry workers.

Another late-2024 study found that viral shedding, the expulsion of viral particles, in the air related to transmissibility ...