A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

There have been four flu pandemics since the start of the 20th century. What we’ve learned—and why we still can’t predict the ...

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

The explosive pattern of the 1918 pandemic makes it a benchmark for ... In 1997, 18 cases of avian influenza A H5N1 infection occurred in humans in Hong Kong. It soon became evident that the ...

Multiple state agencies, as well as the Little Rock Zoo, are continuing to monitor the spread of the avian flu in Arkansas.

The US just recorded the first death from severe bird flu. Experts say it's not too early, or unreasonable, to prepare for ...

It is possible that horses were forced to feed on the carcasses of dead birds, the natural carriers of H5N1, as much of ...

A bird-flu pandemic is not an exhilarating prospect ... All the flu pandemics of the 20th century, however, including the disastrous 1918 influenza that killed 20 million people, began in birds.

An elderly man in the US state of Louisiana died on Monday of bird flu contracted from exposure to sick and dead chickens in ...

Today, the H5N1 avian flu virus, currently lurking in ... have been used successfully before, such as in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. For CP and other forms of passive immunity therapies to ...

The 2020s started with the most severe pandemic since the 1918 Spanish flu ... mainly via sex. In 2024, bird flu became cow flu, or moo flu, as some researchers like to refer to it.