Experts urge US to prepare for possible new pandemic as new H5N1 bird flu outbreak spreads to dairy animals, human infections ...

Apr. 17, 2025 — A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther all died after being ...

Europe’s vast pig herds threaten to become a “dangerous virus laboratory” should they be infected by the growing ...

Questions are answered by experts at the Oregon Health Authority, other state agencies or community partners. Questions and answers are republished by permission. Q: How widespread is bird flu in ...

As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked ...

H5N1 is hitting dairy farms and bird populations hard, but it can also affect humans. Has it reached Alabama? What to know ...

“This is how pandemics start.” This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal pandemic—status, killing birds in every ...

Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but the recent appearance in mammals of the potentially dangerous avian influenza A strain, H5N1 — the bird flu virus — demands redoubling ...

As leaders of NIOSH-funded centers focused on occupational safety and health, we worry that the loss of occupational health expertise will have irreparable consequences for H5N1 bird flu response ...

A 3-year-old girl died from respiratory complications due to H5N1 bird flu in Mexico The girl had no underlying medical conditions and no history of travel The strain is the same one implicated in ...

Britons have been urged to be vigilant against bird flu after the deadly H5N1 strain killed three mute swans in Dorset. Urgent tests are under way to check the other birds and ducks at Abbotsbury ...