The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first severe case of bird flu in the United States, ...

A genetic analysis of the bird flu in the body of a Louisiana man who contracted the first severe case found it mutated ...

According to the CDC tracker, there have been 66 confirmed cases of bird flu reported in humans since the start of the ...

The U.S. hasn’t learned lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 ...

Bird flu could be mutating to become more transmissible to humans, scientists have warned, as the US reported its first ...

The ongoing spread of bird flu in the United States has alarmed experts — not just because of human cases causing severe illness, but also due to troubling new instances of infections in cats. A ...

The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patient’s infection.

The CDC warns samples of the bird flu virus show signs of mutations that could make it more transmissible to humans. The CDC ...

Here’s what to know about the United States’ first confirmed severe case of H5N1 avian influenza—and how to protect yourself.

First Severe Bird Flu Case Confirmed In USNotably, these mutations weren’t present in the bird samples, suggesting they ...

The CDC has confirmed 65 cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans in 2024. Of those, 39 were associated with dairy herds and 23 with ...