Within 24 to 48 hours of the first detection of the virus, state and federal animal health officials work with farms to cull ...

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

Bird flu, Covid-19, and influenza are all respiratory infections spreading through respiratory droplets. While influenza ...

A new antibody therapy effectively protects monkeys from severe H5N1 avian flu, offering hope for a universal flu vaccine and ...

The research team, studying the efficacy of a preventive antibody-based therapy, found it successfully protects monkeys from ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

"This type of prevention can be very useful in controlling infection outbreaks and containing the bird flu pandemic," said an ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

Experts say it is safe to eat fully cooked eggs to prevent the H5N1 virus or foodborne illnesses like salmonella. Here’s what ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have taken a step toward developing a bird flu vaccine. And their findings could ...

All nine macaques given the control developed severe disease when exposed to bird flu, as did all given the smallest dose of ...

The antibody targets a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and offer long-term protection against the globally spreading airborne infection.