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.

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain.

A subtype of influenza that is likely to be bird flu has been detected in three Arizona cities according to wastewater sampling. The FDA has begun testing cheese for bird flu as human cases of the ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the same influenza virus -- in dairy cattle have ... Dec. 17, 2024 — Despite national medical guidelines ...

For 30 years now, scientists have worried about the possibility of a human outbreak of bird flu . Today, however, many experts believe we're closer than ever to a new pandemic. But the big ...

Manufacturers of raw dog and cat food must do a better job detecting bird flu in products sold to pet owners, federal regulators announced Friday. Several cats, wild and domestic, in the U.S. have ...

More than 50,5 million birds in US poultry farms have been slaughtered because of outbreaks of avian flu among flocks in over forty states, according to the Department of Agriculture. The disease ...

I set of swabs is pending. FIG have prepared information and guidance about bird flu and preventative measures to try and reduce the spread of the virus. This guidance can be found here ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. A fourth case of bird flu was ...

The UK government has taken steps to prepare for a possible bird flu outbreak by placing an order with Australia's CSL Seqirus for millions of vaccine doses. The contract covers more than 5 ...

Moderna recently received $590 million to help develop vaccines to fight the virus. Their protein-based vaccines have had ...