Bird flu has been rampaging through wildlife and farm animals worldwide. Will it make the long-feared jump to humans?

The genetic sequencing of the bird flu virus detected in a Dodge County dairy herd earlier this month indicates it was a new ...

Whole-genome sequencing confirmed the virus detected in a Wisconsin dairy herd on December 14 is H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b genotype ...

At least 14 states and Washington, DC, are seeing high and very high levels of flu, mainly caused by a surprise new influenza ...

Make sure you get a flu vaccine every year to lower the risk of getting and spreading the virus. The flu is most contagious during the first three days after your symptoms develop. To prevent ...

While the mortality gap between COVID-19 and influenza has narrowed since the onset of the pandemic, COVID continues to carry a substantially higher short-term risk of death than seasonal flu despite ...

In early 2025, through the National Milk Testing Strategy, USDA detected two spillover events in Nevada and Arizona dairy ...

The USDA has confirmed a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a Wisconsin dairy herd, marking a new spillover event from wildlife to cattle. Identified as the H5N1 strain, this outbreak ...

The outbreaks began shortly before Christmas with chills, headaches and shooting pains in the legs and abdomen. Some patients ...

BackgroundIn the field of biomedicine and public health, continuous viral mutation and evolution may enable viruses to cross species barriers, infect ...

Last year’s flu season was the roughest in nearly a decade. “We generally don’t have two bad flu seasons back to back,” said ...

Known as subclade K, a new, mutated flu strain that has dominated in Europe and Asia is now rapidly spreading across the US.