(Reuters) - The United States Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that it accidentally fired several agency employees working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak, ...

Viruses, like those that cause COVID-19 or HIV, are formidable opponents once they invade our bodies. Antiviral treatments strive to block a virus or halt its replication. However, viruses are dynamic ...

Experts in the United States say it is the worst outbreak of Bird Flu in history for the country; it amounts to a 13% drop in ...

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, among ...

The virus is related to the pathogen that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome and capitalizes on the same ‘entry receptor ...

A big cat sanctuary in Washington plans to reopen next week after a bird flu outbreak killed over half of their animals.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted conditional approval for a new bird flu vaccine for poultry.Thi ...

Bird flu is one of the reasons why egg prices have been so high, and that has led some to ask why can't egg farmers just vaccinate their chickens.

Bird flu is one of the reasons why egg prices have been so high, because every chicken in a farm must be euthanized if the ...

With so much H5N1 circulating in the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic.

Researchers have found that acidification can kill H5N1 in waste milk, providing dairy farmers an affordable, easy-to-use alternative to pasteurization.

There have been no reported cases of human-to-human transmission so far, but there is concern about variants developing if ...