Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

Clinics run by a state vendor near affected farms are giving out $25 gift cards to people who get a swab test for H5N1 bird ...

Questions are answered by experts at the Oregon Health Authority, other state agencies or community partners. Questions and ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

A 3-year-old girl from Durango, Mexico, has died from H5N1 Bird Flu, according to the World Health Organization. The child ...

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

In 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reported 6 more H5N1 avian flu ...

A nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza achieved 100% protection in preclinical trials, offering hope ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...