Proteins and genetic material from H5N1 influenza viruses have been found in pasteurized milk in the United States, but a study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital shows those inactive viral ...

State officials today confirmed that a sick Hawaiian duck found at the Hanalei Wildlife Refuge on Kauai a few months ago likely died of highly pathogenic avian influenza.

Researchers are not just worried about the virus popping up on American farms. Other types are causing trouble around the ...

AIV prevalence is monitored in hunter-killed waterfowl in the Sacramento Valley of California. Overall virus prevalence in ...

A second outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed on a farm owned by Scotland's largest egg supplier, Glenrath Farms near West ...

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Italy has, between the end of December and the first day of 2026, recorded 43 cases of high pathogenic avian influenza in ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year ...

A new year might mean new viral threats. Old viruses are constantly evolving. A warming and increasingly populated planet ...

But the most important difference between the two is that type A viruses can cause pandemics because of how often and quickly ...

Four years ago, as attention locked onto COVID-19, another virus began circling the globe. A major outbreak of a new strain of bird flu—formally named influenza A virus subtype H5N1—has since killed ...