By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli covered the Covid-19 and mpox outbreaks, and has tracked the spread of H5N1 since 2003. When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed ...

The study comes as Ohio announced its first human case of H5N1 in a poultry worker who was hospitalized with respiratory symptoms but has since recovered. The new study of vets found that three of ...

It’s the country’s first recorded death attributed to H5N1. The US has previously licensed three H5N1 vaccines for humans, but they’re not available commercially. The government has ...

Which gave rise, recently, to a troubling thought: Will our efforts against H5N1 — or bird flu, as we know it — bind us to a similar Sisyphean-like struggle? But alone, they dismiss an ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

CDC report shows H5N1 infection in veterinarians who did not know they were working with infected cattle The veterinarians had no symptoms but have antibodies in their blood One of the ...

H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., with different variants of that virus spreading in wild birds, poultry flocks, dairy cattle ...

It appears that there may have been another spillover of H5N1 bird flu virus from wild birds into dairy cattle. The Arizona Department of Agriculture announced Friday that it had found the virus ...

CNN reports a Nevada dairy worker may have been infected by deadly D1.1 version of H5N1 bird flu Worker shows only mild symptoms Genetic analyses of this version show changes that could make it ...

Over the past two decades, scientists have paid close attention to the spread of bird flu, a disease caused by the H5N1 virus that has high pandemic potential. Last spring, when the virus made the ...