Since its emergence in US dairy cattle, highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu, H5N1) has defied control, spreading to ...

Expert says H5N1 has the potential to spur a major epidemic if its circulation among poultry, cattle and humans is not ...

New research projects funded to combat avian influenza in swine focus on vaccine development, transmission risks, and biosecurity measures.

Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have developed a new, proof-of-concept vaccine to protect people from the bird flu strain currently circulating in the United States. The team, led ...

Erik Karlsson, PhD, with the National Influenza Center and Pasteur Institute in Cambodia, said on X today that 7 of the 15 ...

Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at medRxiv.org. The finding, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, raises the ...

As the Southeast Asian state confirms its 15th human case this year, more outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have also been confirmed in Cambodian poultry.

With H5N1 posing a potentially significant public health threat, hospitals must adopt proactive, comprehensive strategies to prepare for, reduce the threat of, and respond to potential cases.

The H5N1 bird flu outbreak has severely impacted the US dairy industry, causing significant milk production losses and ...

A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, although inefficiently, and killed 100% of ...

A team of Chilean scientists has sequenced the first complete genomes of the H5N1 avian influenza virus found in birds in ...

Make public the government’s planned strategy for H5N1 communication. Government agencies should provide people with a rough schedule of when they should expect to be updated.