A new H5N1 strain has been spotted in cows and New York is temporarily closing live poultry markets, among other warning ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

Over the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968, a shift once again caused a pandemic.

All live poultry markets in New York City and Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties are being shut down Friday after seven ...

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Across the Pacific Ocean, federal authorities have discovered a worrying change in the worsening bird flu outbreak. A second ...

As bird flu spreads in the United States, are there are any risks of the virus from drinking milk or eating eggs? Here's what you need to know, according to experts.

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

A branch of the H5N1 bird flu family tree that hadn't previously been seen in cattle has now been detected in dairy cows.

Until last week, all bird flu in dairy herds had been identified as the B3.13 variant, which was believed to have come from ...