HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

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

Martinez-Sobrido: It could be coming from here, yeah. Amarsy: In addition to its contribution to your annual flu shot, Luis’s lab makes candidates for potential vaccines to protect against H5N1.

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been around since the 1990s, but this current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

On average, ferrets infected with H5N1 bird flu lost nearly 10% of their body weight and had fevers. They were lethargic, and had nasal and ocular discharge along with sneezing.

Seqirus already manufactures an H5N1 vaccine that FDA has determined is safe and effective. This new bird flu vaccine replaces the H5N1 strain with the circulating virus.