Genetic analysis of a bird flu virus detected in a person in Missouri who didn’t previously have contact with animals offers ...

A study out of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found that high-pathogenicity avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H5N1 ...

Kleptoparasitism, in which a bird harasses another to steal its food, might introduce avian flu to the continent, currently ...

By outfitting blackbirds with heart-rate monitors, scientists debunked a long-held assumption about the benefits of spending ...

If seabirds can catch avian flu by stealing food from infectious birds, it gives scientists a clue where to monitor for outbreaks among these vulnerable birds.

There is no current threat of the bird flu becoming a pandemic, but the partnership aims to prepared for any situation.

The deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus, which has killed millions of birds worldwide since 2021 – and in rare cases can be ...

A patient in Missouri who was hospitalized after an infection with bird flu had the H5N1 strain of the virus, the US Centers ...

Federal officials are still trying to determine how a Missouri resident with no known exposure to bird flu, contracted the ...

Unprecedented levels of the bird flu virus have been detected in wastewater samples from across Texas, raising alarms that the disease is adapting to infect a new host.

"The widespread detection of influenza A (H5N1) virus in wastewater from 10 U.S. cities is troubling," the authors concluded.