SACRAMENTO, California — Health officials across the U.S. are working to prevent a potentially dangerous combination virus as avian flu rips through one of the nation’s largest milk-producing ...

Helen Branswell, STAT’s infectious disease reporter, has been writing about H5N1 bird flu for 20 years. If you’re aware of the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cattle — you may have seen ...

Food Theft' Among Seabirds Could Be Transmission Point for Deadly Avian Flu Sep. 16, 2024 — If seabirds can catch avian flu by stealing food from infectious birds, it gives scientists a clue ...

Seven cases of H5N1 bird flu were detected in California this week. No confirmed cases have occurred in people or livestock in Arizona.

Using new analytical tools, the scientists found that people sampled already had antibodies that reacted to H5 bird flu viruses, indicating a prior infection. The findings, they said, demonstrate ...

SACRAMENTO, California — Health officials across the U.S. are working to prevent a potentially dangerous combination virus as avian flu rips through one of the nation’s largest milk-producing ...

Federal and state health officials said they have confirmed a third human case of bird flu in California and identified an ...

Oct 17 (Reuters) - Cows in California are dying at much higher rates from bird flu than in other affected states, industry and veterinary experts said, and some carcasses have been left rotting in ...

Five more people who presumably contracted the bird flu are being tested amid outbreaks in California's dairy industry, health officials confirmed Monday. The five new possible positive cases are ...

Concerns about bird flu — officially known as avian influenza A (H5) — continue to mount, particularly in California. As of Oct. 14, the state has had six confirmed and five possible human ...