Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next pandemic.

It may take 100 years for the southern elephant seal colony of Península Valdés in Argentine Patagonia to look like it did in ...

Key takeaways Pseudoscientific pet health trends linked to deadly H5N1 outbreaks and growing pandemic risks Raw pet food ...

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 ...

It was a first for cows last March when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the highly pathogenic avian flu virus ...

Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle ...

Before H5N1 was identified in the two Olympic Peninsula cougars, sick animals had typically lived near wild bird populations infected with the virus. The 15 harbor seals that died in 2023 ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

"A total of 40 seal carcasses were sampled from the site ... Bird flu, also known as avian influenza or H5N1, is a disease caused by a virus that infects birds and sometimes other animals.