Public health officials have warned that new mutations of bird flu with human flu could have dangerous consequences.

Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu outbreak.

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different influenza viruses mix.

Humans infected with bird flu display a wide range of symptoms, from pneumonia requiring hospitalization to no symptoms at ...

President-elect Donald Trump is likely to struggle with the outbreak of bird flu, or H5N1, among livestock and wildlife in ...

A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator.

Pennsylvania is among the states across the country ramping up efforts to guard against a growing bird flu outbreak. The ...

A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed ...

Or jump straight to: Bird flu, or avian flu, has existed among different bird ... To understand the risk of H5N1, researchers are working to understand the molecular structure of the virus, the way it ...

The bird flu virus has evolved to thrive and replicate ... Messer says one interesting aspect of the virus’s structure is that it can pair well with lots of different host enzymes, which helps ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...