In an update yesterday on scientific investigations related to H5N1 avian flu activity, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the ...

Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely ...

One of the ways it can spread to healthy poultry farms is by a single infected duck visiting a flock and shedding the virus ...

A United Nations food agency warned that the continued spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus is an unprecedented food security ...

In outbreak developments, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) ...

In two recent interviews on Fox News, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed concerns about H5N1 avian influenza in the U.S., raising alarm among public health and infectious disease experts.

Though it’s illegal to sell raw milk across state lines, since 1949 it’s been legal to sell raw milk cheese provided it has been aged for at least 60 days. That period allows for development of ...

Soon after the discovery of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) strain H5N1 in dairy cattle, scientists learned that ...

A small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain driving the current U.S. outbreak, after eating raw food or drinking unpasteurized milk. Though there are no ...

Health secretary RFK, Jr. has repeatedly suggested that farmers should let bird flu spread through flocks. Experts explain ...

who has been studying the transmission of H5N1. “We and others have repeatedly observed that milk will prevent the degradation of the virus on surfaces, and it increases the pH stability ...