Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu outbreak.

Public health officials have warned that new mutations of bird flu with human flu could have dangerous consequences.

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Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump’s choice to run the ...

When, where and how the H5N1 bird flu virus may evolve and its capacity to spark a pandemic is hard to predict — in part, ...

Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in ...

“I don’t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.” To understand how the bird flu got out of hand, KFF Health News interviewed nearly 70 government ...

“I don’t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.” The CDC said the case does not change its overall assessment that the immediate risk to the public’s ...

In late 2021, a highly pathogenic avian influenza--H5N1 North ... How does the avian influenza virus commonly found in wild birds relate to pandemic influenza? Pandemic strains of avian influenza are ...

Between 1997 and 2021, there were 833 cases reported ... and others concerned about the potential for bird flu to trigger the next pandemic. But targeted testing of people working with sick ...