H5N1 bird flu has infected over 1,009 cattle across 17 U.S. states, affected poultry in New York and New Mexico, and caused one human death in Louisiana.

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

Liberia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Friday.

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able to bind to human receptors.

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 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther ...

Five years after the emergence of Covid-19, which killed millions of people, devastated economies and upturned health systems, a sense of urgency hung over the talks, with new threats lurking -- ...

Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can infect each other with this strain of the virus.

First it was bird flu — now, any chance for Georgia poultry to recover market share in China could be stymied even further by ...

Avian influenza, which primarily affects poultry, has now adapted to wild birds, accompanying them in their journeys across ...

One bobcat that initially tested negative at the time of capture died from H5N1 ... University of Georgia to confirm the ...