A case of bird flu has been confirmed in commercial poultry at a farm in East Yorkshire. The virus, also known as highly ...

A virologist explains that why this probably isn’t the big one — but that it’s a sign of bad things happening with the virus.

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

The virus is spreading among animals, while viral mutations raise concerns about potential adaptation to human hosts.

But while the current risk from our fuzzy feline friends is considered very low, public health officials nonetheless have ...

The CDC has revealed the red flags it is monitoring for that suggest that bird flu was about to become the world's next pandemic.

APHIS classifies the flock as a commercial operation – the state’s first since the U.S. outbreak began in 2022.

After surviving a tumultuous 2023, farmers had hoped 2024 would be kinder and a bit more profitable. A year later, farmers ...

Newsweek has created a map showing which states have recorded the most human bird flu cases, after the first human case of severe bird flu was confirmed in Louisiana. California, which has declared a ...

A person was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu in Louisiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Public health officials have just reported the first known “severe” case of bird flu in the United States ... The CDC said that that outbreak would ultimately cause over 860 human infections ...

The outbreak involved an H5N2 virus (not the ... Local news outlets also cover bird flu news. Current avian flu map The CDC publishes a summary of the H5N1 bird flu situation, including a map ...