H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

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

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

Although the avian flu (H5N1) virus may not be making the news as frequently, it is still working hard behind the scenes, ...

More information: David A. Duchêne et al, Drivers of avian genomic change revealed by evolutionary rate decomposition, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08777-7 Provided by University of ...

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

These results can help scientists monitor the evolution and adaptability of bird flu strains, such as H5N1 or ... These new insights into the influenza replication complex can be used to study ...

Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the warning of a new paper in the journal Science Advances, which concluded that ...

• These results can help scientists monitor the evolution and adaptability of bird flu strains, such as H5N1 or H7N9, ... New insights on how bird flu crosses the species barrier ...

Last year, bird flu killed more than 40 million egg-laying birds. Including ducks and chickens, 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized since H5N1 began spreading around the U.S. in 2022 ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.