The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

Doctors should use infection control measures if a hospitalized patient has suspected, probable, or confirmed H5N1, putting ...

For the first time, birds in a Wayne County backyard flock have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

A CHILD in the US is believed to have tested positive for H5N1, health officials have confirmed. The patient, from San Francisco in California, started with conjunctivitis and a fever before ...

The Free Press interviewed Dr. Kimberly Dodd, the dean of the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine, about efforts to tame the ...

More than 100 chickens, geese, ducks and other birds at Hess-Hathaway Park in Waterford have been culled after some tested ...

A child ill with fever and conjunctivitis in San Francisco tested positive for bird flu but had no known source of ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in ...

One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable ...

The variant circulating in America appears to be less lethal and could be triggering different responses from the immune ...

H5N1 remains a major threat to poultry and wild bird populations, leading to large-scale culling of domestic fowl in many ...

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.