Health officials in California are now offering gift cards to encourage folks near farms to get tested for bird flu.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses were found in 38 people in CA from Sept. 30 to Dec. 24, 2024, including the first pediatric case in the US.

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there was in the winter. Experts say the ...

A study published in Science investigates the emergence, transmission, and evolutionary dynamics of HPAI H5N1 in U.S. dairy cattle, utilizing genomic and epidemiological data to elucidate interspecies ...

Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

As the spring progresses in the northern hemisphere, the number of reported highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) ...

The epidemiological characteristics of the current H5N1 outbreak closely resemble those of the 2003 H7N7 outbreak, underscoring the importance of monitoring similar symptomatology and transmission ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...

Although the rate of increase appears to be falling, new outbreaks of avian influenza in commercial poultry have been ...

Scientists Raise Red Flags as spread of H5N1 Bird Flu to U.S. Cattle to U.S. Cattle herds and raised concern over possible human threat ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.