As avian influenza sweeps the nation — infecting more than 58.3 million poultry and 6,192 wild birds in the U.S. as of Wednesday, per the CDC — infectious disease experts are watching closely ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is more commonly seen in wild birds, but it can also spread to domestic poultry and to humans. The risk of a human catching avian influenza is low. It can be passed ...

From the outset of the Trump administration, bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has flown rather conspicuously — and in fact ...

WHO Warns Bird Flu Could Jump to Humans Avian influenza has recently been recorded spreading among minks and other mammals. The World Health Organization has now acknowledged that could be very bad.

Avian flu has infected a record number of birds and some mammals across the United States, ... the virus hasn't made the jump to humans at a large enough scale to trigger an outbreak.

But highly pathogenic avian influenza is no Covid-19. Scientists are reassuring the public that, with a few rare exceptions, the virus hasn’t made the jump to humans at a large enough scale to ...

A strain of avian influenza, H5N1, has been reported in mammals. While there's fear the virus may jump to humans next, experts say the risk is low.

Outbreaks of avian flu are decimating poultry farms, but the virus doesn't yet pose a significant threat to humans. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV Subscribe Subscribe ...

The current avian flu strains have led to two severe cases in humans. One involved a 65-year-old person from Louisiana who contracted the virus from exposure to a combination of a non-commercial ...

Bird flu is back with a vengeance. Medical experts have discovered that one variant of the avian flu virus, dubbed H3N8, has undergone several mutations and can now cause more severe infections.

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