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.

Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can ...

The avian flu virus continues to affect poultry producers and dairy farms in 2025. In North Carolina alone, the virus has ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has discovered avian flu in several species of mammals, including skunks, foxes and ...

A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and preventing a ...

Flu can also trigger sepsis, an extreme, body-wide immune reaction. Runaway inflammation driven by sepsis can lead to tissue damage and fatal organ failure. Bird flu, or avian influenza ...

Apr. 18, 2025 — A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and ...

In this opinion piece, Beth Bechdol, deputy director-general at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

Avian influenza—which has devastated poultry flocks, wildlife populations and increasingly poses a public health risk—has now been confirmed in wild bobcats in New York state. In a new study ...

Since early 2024, a different kind of flu called bird flu, formally known as avian influenza, has been spreading in birds as well as in cattle. The current bird flu outbreak has infected 70 ...