HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

"When a flu virus infects a cell, its genetic material goes in as multiple different segments or pieces," she explained in the video, posted November 18, 2024.

Virus experts are issuing an “urgent call to action” about bird flu, warning about a rising threat from H5N1 and offering steps to prevent pandemic.

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

WHY IT MATTERS. The first case of the H5N1 virus, known as bird flu, in the U.S. was reported earlier this month after a ...

More SciePro / dragana991/iStock / Getty Images Plus / Canva How Does It Differ From Seasonal Flu? When flu season hits, it is both the influenza A and B variants that are responsible for the ...

Public concern over bird flu ratcheted up this week as the H5N1 virus continued its sweep through the nation's dairy and poultry farms and the first American was hospitalized with a severe infection.

The detection of avian flu virus fragments in milk is a new challenge for the dairy industry. Scientists do not have a full picture of the risks to humans but are learning.

The first human in Wyoming to contract the bird flu was infected after the virus devastated her backyard chicken flock. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images “Unfortunately, ...