New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

As bird flu, also known as H5N1, spreads across the country, experts are concerned about the potential for undetected transfer and mutations.

What to know about bird flu amid dozens of human cases in U.S. 02:27 Health officials are alarmed by more than 50 confirmed human cases of a bird flu variant across seven states this year, with a ...

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious disease expert.

H5N1 bird flu, prevalent in U.S. wild birds, has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, leading to 70 human cases and one death since 2024. Experts are divided on the pandemic ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads across all 50 states, impacting cows at US dairy farms, leading to human infections and raising ...

Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept the world, killing 20 million to 100 million people. By 1957, when Hilleman began worrying about the egg supply ...

Could the bird flu be the next pandemic? The rise in human infections has spurred Global Virus Network (GVN) scientists to issue a warning and plea to world governments to improve surveillance, ...