The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd ...

A Canadian teenager is currently in critical condition after contracting a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, a British ...

In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing some 17,000 elephant seal pups (about 97 ...

Federal health officials on Thursday called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed ...

One very easy way to lower the chances of a genetic shuffling would be for everyone, but especially farm workers, to get vaccinated against seasonal flu.

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

Since the first avian ... this influenza season coming up. Somebody who’s infected with [seasonal influenza] could also get infected with H5N1, and then it could maybe create a new strain ...

The protein also helps prevent unfamiliar viruses from mutating after they infect a new host, the study found—meaning ... called IFITM3—especially if an avian or swine flu were to gain hold ...

The new CDC study suggests that the virus has infected more humans than previously reported. As of this week, bird flu has been detected in 10,528 wild birds, roughly 105.2 million poultry and 443 ...