This is the 14th person in the U.S. sickened with bird flu since March, when the virus was detected in cows, after infecting wild birds and mammals worldwide. One other person was infected in 2022.

Aug. 20, 2024 — Scientists have discovered why the flu vaccine can perform poorly. They found that a specific type of immune cell, called T follicular helper cells, indirectly controls the anti ...

In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first ...

Massachusetts cows have thus far been spared of the avian flu. State testing from all 95 Massachusetts dairy farms showed a 100% negative result for the dangerous strain of influenza, according to ...

Health officials say they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu, but they believe it may be a rare instance of a ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Up until last Friday afternoon, a total of 13 people in the United States had officially come down this year with avian ...

June 5A new study examining the 2023 bird flu outbreak in South America that killed around 17,400 elephant seal pups and 24,000 sea lions found the disease spread between the animals in several ...

A deadly animal pandemic is on the brink of going global. Scientists have officially documented highly pathogenic avian ...

Avian flu in dairy cows could stick around on US farms forever, and is raising the risk of outbreaks in mammals—including ...

Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human ...

The H5N1 virus, initially restricted to Eurasia and Africa, has since spread to North and South America and even reached ...