Avian influenza – which has devastated poultry flocks, wildlife populations and increasingly poses a public health risk – has now been confirmed in wild bobcats in New York state.

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able to bind to human receptors.

Results show positive results for HPAI H5N1 in albatrosses ... sad to witness the effects of avian flu on the animal populations we study on South Georgia. We are doing everything we can to ...

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

In 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther ...

Liberia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Friday.

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can infect each other with this strain of the virus.

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H5N1 bird flu has infected over 1,009 cattle across 17 U.S. states, affected poultry in New York and New Mexico, and caused one human death in Louisiana.