Two rare bird flu strains have emerged since late January, prompting public health concerns during a freeze on federal health communications.

After doctor’s office visits for flu dipped early this year, they jumped past the previous season peak at the end of last ...

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in ...

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That's what the ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed ...

A branch of the H5N1 bird flu family tree that hadn't previously been seen in cattle has now been detected in dairy cows.

For the first time, a new genotype of avian influenza has been identified in U.S. dairy cows, prompting biosecurity efforts.

UC San Francisco's Rais Vohra, MD, explains recent increase in reported virus infections and the risks of consuming raw cow’s milk.

Avian flu first made the jump from birds into dairy cows on farms in a number of US states in spring 2024. Until now, all ...