Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

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Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu among poultry and dairy cattle across the United States, the country has recorded its first human death due the virus known as avian influenza A or H5N1. On Jan. 6 ...

The advisory is intended to prevent delays in identifying human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses amid high levels of seasonal influenza. The risk to the general public from bird flu is ...

Meanwhile, on Jan. 6, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first human death from bird flu in the U.S., in Louisiana. Kimberly Dodd, dean of Michigan State University ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still categorizes bird flu as a low risk to humans, with most of the 66 human cases in the U.S. coming from direct exposure to affected birds.

However, if bird flu continues to circulate in large numbers of animals and keeps transmitting to humans, the conditions necessary for human-to-human transmission may become unavoidable.

While the outbreak has devastated poultry populations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has only reported 66 human cases of bird flu in the U.S. since the virus emerged ...

Bird flu could end up being passed from human to human in the future if the virus mutates, Irish disease experts have warned. In a new alert, the HSE is asking people not to touch or handle any ...

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the first time bird flu was detected in cows. One month later in April, the CDC confirmed the infection of a person exposed to dairy cows in Texas, the first instance of a likely mammal-to-human ...