The North Dakota Department of Agriculture has confirmed a case of highly pathogenic bird flu in a backyard chicken flock in ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

North Dakota has its first confirmed case of bird flu in a domestic poultry flock this year, amid the ongoing national ...

Australian and Dutch researchers have uncovered a remarkable evolutionary adaptation in birds that could hold vital clues for ...

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 ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This ...