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 ...

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

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 ...

This lineage of bird flu originated around 1996 and was first found in a domestic goose in China. The virus mutated and persisted, and the first big wild bird outbreak happened around 2005 in a ...

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 ...

It’s been a rough flu season this winter in the United States and Europe, but it could be worse. A lot worse. The flu viruses that are making us sick go by names like H1N1 and H3N2, referring to ...

• 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 ...

Stock image of a blood test for H5N1 bird flu infection. Diy13/iStock / Getty Images Plus. In their study, Reed and his colleagues demonstrated that a pre-treatment with their broadly neutralizing ...