The Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday it's purchased 500,000 doses of a human vaccine to protect against avian influenza for those most at risk from being exposed to the virus by infected ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

A second subtype of H5 bird flu, known as D1.1, was detected in dairy cattle and infected one worker in the US state of ...

The ongoing outbreak of genotype B3.13 of the H5N1 avian flu virus in dairy cows was first detected in March 2024. The first ...

Airborne transmission may play a bigger role in the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial poultry ...

For the first time since 1952, publication of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was halted. It returned on Feb.

But the appearance of H5N9 is still concerning, especially in light of the ongoing outbreaks in chickens and cows of H5N1. Here's what to know. “We’ve never seen a global spread of avian ...

The finding indicates that the virus, known as H5N1, has spilled from birds into ... Reassuringly, the virus did not seem to spread from either person to anyone else. Still, its evolution ...

A second type of the virus, D1.1, has been detected in dairy cattle in Nevada, US. A second type of bird flu H5N1 detected in US cattle Some experts believe the risk for humans is low Infections have ...

What’s happening in the UK is just one part of an ongoing global H5N1 outbreak. In some regions, strains of the virus have managed to spread beyond wild birds and infect mammals as well.

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.