Bacteriologist and parasitologist Michelle Jakaitis uses a microscope to view a training sample of veligers, which are the ...

Avian influenza virus from the ongoing outbreak in dairy cattle appears to be keeping its bird-infecting features rather than ...

Dairies say the USDA relief money helped them sustain operations as bird flu decimated milk production, but critics say the ...

A new CDC report found evidence of previous bird flu infection in veterinary practitioners who work with cattle and who did ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle and ...

Studies suggest that people who had seasonal flus or vaccinations have low antibody levels against H5N1 bird flu.

In other developments, a Chinese research team that studied experimental infections involving different inoculation routes ...

H5N1 avian influenza virus was first found infecting cattle in 2024, though its risk of adapting to infect and spread through ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The absolute ...

The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping toward the Texas-Mexico border.

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts warn that it hasn’t disappeared ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus has historically extracted a heavy toll when it infects humans, with nearly half of confirmed cases ...