FOR years, scientists have warned that bird flu could one day spill over from birds to humans, triggering a global health ...

Learn about a new simulation that shows human-to-human transmission of H5N1 will become uncontainable if we miss the narrow ...

Scientists have warned H5N1 bird flu could make a dangerous leap to humans, triggering a global health crisis.

Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention ...

Even as the bird flu virus H5N1 is evolving rapidly, with the potential to become a significant threat to human health, a ...

Finding that vampire bats along Peru’s coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises concerns that multiple bat species could become ...

Waterfowl fall migration continues to peak, and there is a greater risk of spreading the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus—commonly known as bird flu—has been causing outbreaks in dairy cows in the United States since ...

Three state agencies remain on alert after a third presumptive case of avian influenza — or bird flu — was found in a wild ...

Key mutations and animal spread could raise the risk to humans. Bird flu is spreading. The avian influenza virus H5N1 has ...

A global analysis of more than 18,000 bird flu samples collected over the past decade warns that the virus' rapid evolution and increasing ability to infect mammals could significantly raise future ri ...

New research shows that genetic changes in modern H5N1 viruses improve their ability to infect bovine cells, helping explain ...