Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...

Public health officials have warned that new mutations of bird flu with human flu could have dangerous consequences.

The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, ...

The bird flu has gotten out of hand and should have been dealt with before human cases started to emerge. According to an ...

The 2024–25 flu shot doesn’t prevent H5N1 bird flu but could play a pivotal role in preventing a pandemic.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Friday it would award $306 million in funds to help bird flu monitoring, as the virus spreads in dairy herds and farm workers across the ...

The CDC said that testing of a person with a severe case of bird flu indicated the virus had mutated but the risk remains low ...

A genetic analysis of samples of the bird flu virus from a Louisiana patient show ... transmitted at the time of infection,” the CDC said. “Although concerning, and a reminder that A(H5N1 ...

Bird flu cases are on the rise in the U.S., and the CDC is on high alert. With 66 confirmed human cases so far, officials are ...

the more chances a pandemic virus will emerge.”The CDC has confirmed 65 cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans in 2024. Of those, 39 were associated with dairy herds and 23 with poultry farms and ...

A genetic analysis of samples of the bird flu virus from a Louisiana patient show the virus likely mutated in the patient to potentially become more transmissible to humans. CDC/NIAID/AP via CNN ...