The new study shows that this aging process may not inactivate the H5N1 virus, however, and it underscores the risk of consuming raw or undercooked foods during the bird flu outbreak, which ...

Scientists have pioneered an influenza virus vector-based nasal spray vaccine platform and developed a nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine. During the early COVID-19 pandemic, this platform ...

Virus spillover has occurred in various mammal species, including humans. H5N1 does not currently have the ability to spread human to human. It's not just higher egg prices. The ongoing bird flu ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country's first confirmed human case of bird flu, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico's Health Ministry said ...

H5N1 viruses have circulated in birds for many years, but a new version, called clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 virus emerged more recently, and has since spread among cattle.

Since its first description in 1959 in Scottish poultry farms, the A(H5N1) virus was subsequently identified in 1996 in intensively reared ducks and chickens from China, with the first human infection ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus, first detected in humans in Hong Kong in 1997, has spread globally, spawning multiple variants and causing cross-species infections. It is now a top candidate for ...