The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended its emergency response to the H5N1 bird flu and said Monday it will ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has ended its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, citing a drop in ...

The CDC concludes its emergency response for H5N1 bird flu due to decreased animal infections and no new human cases since ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has merged H5N1 bird flu updates with routine updates for seasonal ...

Chinese scientists say they have uncovered how the H5N1 virus initially invades the mammary glands of dairy cattle, ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

H5N1 bird flu can cause severe illness in humans. Experts warn it spreads from animals, not people, but can turn deadly if ...

H5N1, the most common strain of bird flu, is an HPAI. Low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) This type causes less serious illness in chickens and is less likely to cause death.

However, the U.S. has a small stockpile of H5N1 and H7N9 bird flu vaccines, so if an outbreak were to happen among humans, the amount of vaccines would not be enough to withstand the outbreak.

H5N1 is a specific strain of influenza A virus, also known as bird flu. The avian flu is a highly contagious respiratory disease that primarily affects birds, but can also infect other animals ...

H5N1 is one of the more common bird flu strains to make the jump from birds to humans. The infected birds spread the virus through their saliva, mucus and feces.

T he discovery of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. cattle — and the news that at least one person in Texas has been infected, apparently through contact with infected cows — has taken scientists who ...