After going quiet on bird flu, CDC scientists have published a report on its spread among veterinarians. The findings suggest ...

The strain of bird flu is distinct from what has previously been found in dairy cattle. The finding means the virus has again ...

When the H5N1 bird flu virus jumps from animals into people, it hits a dead end. Missing the key genes that would help it infect humans, it isn’t causing a pandemic. But if the virus suddenly ...

Antibodies targeting the hemagglutinin stalk region that is preserved across different influenza isolates, such as the strain of H5N1 tested in the new study, circumvents the abovementioned challenge ...

Nature Sustainability. 1: 679-685. Abstract: After the emergence of the H5N1 influenza virus in Hong Kong in 1997, virologists and birdwatchers have allied to monitor viruses among wild birds as early ...

USask Photo Dr. Bryce Warner was the co-lead on the dairy cattle H5N1 research project at VIDO. Dairy cows build a natural immunity to H5N1 after initial infection according to research conducted at ...

Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 permitted dairy farms will undergo testing once a month for H5N1, the virus commonly known as bird flu. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The H5 and H9 designations refer to different types of these proteins. Both H5N9 and H5N1 are bird flu viruses, but they differ in their composition and effects. H5N1: This strain has been the ...

Both H5N9 and the more common H5N1 strains were found. The USDA is conducting investigations and enhanced surveillance, highlighting H5N1's higher human risk compared to H5N9, which is rarer and ...

Pro-Palestinian activists have seemingly put up anti-Israeli posters on the London Underground, accusing Britain of spying on behalf of Israel. An image of the advert, on the Jubilee Line at London ...

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 ...

So far, bird flu outbreaks in the U.S. have been from a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) called H5N1. That strain has been responsible for all the egg shortages and infections in ...