For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

While rare, bird flu has infected over 140 cats since 2022, according to government data. Here's how to protect your pets.

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year, ...

The risk of the bird flu outbreak among dairy cows in the US triggering a human flu pandemic may be lower than feared. Cow udders have lots of bird-like flu virus binding sites but no human-like ...

The first death caused by H5N1 bird flu was reported in January 2025. Some believe the virus could eventually pose a widespread risk to the public.

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

As avian influenza continues to spread among wild bird populations in the European Union (EU), scientists have described a wide range of factors that could drive the virus to spread efficiently ...

Bird flu pandemic? Experts look at worst-case scenarios. Don’t get me wrong: It is the potential for the virus to adapt to human transmission over time that keeps many scientists and public ...

Bird flu will be the next pandemic unless health officials take 6 critical ... [flu] increases the risk of reassortments” in those who have that virus and an H5 infection at the same time ...

Although health officials say the risk of H5N1 bird flu infection is still low for the ... So too was the 2009 H1N1 swine flu, which led to a pandemic estimated to have caused the death of more ...