Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

More than 170 species of North American wild birds were infected with bird flu. Here's what it means for your backyard bird ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

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More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This ...

Bird flu has long been a concern for scientists, but recent developments have raised alarms about its potential to cause a global pandemic. The discovery in 2024 that the H5N1 virus had jumped from ...

open image in gallery H5N1 is displaying a common pattern of stepwise invasion from animal to human populations When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted ... especially ...

And the leap from birds to humans is not easily made ... In her experiments, ferrets earlier exposed to the 2009 H1N1 swine ...

Parr, president of the American Bird Conservancy. What are bird flu symptoms in wild birds? Symptoms vary, but may include lack of coordination, inability to fly and respiratory distress.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bird flu has devastated ... can carry the virus with few symptoms because “these viruses co-evolved in waterfowl,” said Richards. But ducks can also shed the virus in ...