An avian influenza outbreak has been confirmed at a poultry farm in Odisha's Puri district, leading the state government to ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

From the outset of the Trump administration, bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has flown rather conspicuously — and in fact ...

A bird flu outbreak in Odisha's Puri district has led to emergency containment measures, including the culling of over 6,700 ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday it has ended its emergency response for H5N1 bird flu, ...

H5N1, the most common strain of bird flu, is an HPAI. Low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) This type causes less serious illness in chickens and is less likely to cause death.

However, the U.S. has a small stockpile of H5N1 and H7N9 bird flu vaccines, so if an outbreak were to happen among humans, the amount of vaccines would not be enough to withstand the outbreak.

Topline. Here’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently spread among cattle in U.S. states and marine mammals across the world, which health ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a broad term that refers to several types of influenza that normally infect birds. The bird flu that’s been making news in the United States is a virus called H5N1.

T he discovery of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. cattle — and the news that at least one person in Texas has been infected, apparently through contact with infected cows — has taken scientists who ...

How sick does the current strain of bird flu make people? The H5N1 strain that jumped from birds to cows and then to people is the subtype 2.3.4.4b, according to the CDC.