Scientists warn that a widely spreading bird flu strain with no human immunity could trigger a pandemic even deadlier than COVID-19 if it mutates to spread between humans. The H5 avian influenza virus ...

Less than a month ago, researchers reported for the first time the ability to scan wastewater for signs of the H5 influenza virus currently sickening dairy cows in at least nine states across the U.S.

Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the western province of British Columbia, health officials said on Saturday. panyawat - stock.adobe.com Canada ...

Public health officials on Monday confirmed the first case of H5 bird flu in Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the patient was an adult exposed to ...

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A person in Missouri is the United States’ first case of H5 avian influenza without a known exposure to a sick animal, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. “This is the 14 ...

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The US government is nearing an agreement to bankroll a late-stage trial of Moderna’s mRNA pandemic bird flu vaccine, hoping to bolster its pandemic jab stockpile as an H5N1 outbreak spreads through ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after unusual ...