Experts urge US to prepare for possible new pandemic as new H5N1 bird flu outbreak spreads to dairy animals, human infections ...

The H5N1 virus is already leading to human infections, and experts are warning about the possibility of a fresh pandemic in ...

Experts from the Global Virus Network (GVN), which includes human and animal virologists from more than 40 countries, say the ...

Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...

A middle-aged man who survived bird flu ... I felt like I was going colour blind and the walls were pressing in on me,' recalled Hung. Lab tests then confirmed he had contracted H5N1—as ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This ...

Specialists have stressed that a bird flu "pandemic" could be on its way after almost 1,000 cow herds have been hit by the ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered ... PCR testing does not differentiate between live virus or fragments.

Bird flu has long been a concern for scientists, but recent developments have raised alarms about its potential to cause a global pandemic. The discovery in 2024 that the H5N1 virus had jumped from ...

Experts urge U.S. to prepare for possible new pandemic as H5N1 bird flu outbreak spreads with dairy animal and human cases. Here's what to know.