Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate amid ongoing outbreak.

According to the CDC, there have been avian influenza A viruses—other than H5N1—which have spread between humans in the past, but that is very rare.

Infectious disease experts say the avian flu case that infected a 13-year-old B.C. girl shows worrying signs that the virus could be mutating to more easily infect humans, but that the treatment ...

An Oregon company that sells pet food across Washington state has issued a recall of a raw, frozen product contaminated with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, or H5N1. The Northwest ...