We live in an era when human activities are negatively modifying the world at alarming rates. We are experiencing a massive ...

H5N1, which was first detected in 1996 in China and was found in the United States in 2022, has affected 160 million poultry ...

Public officials said the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected at four dairy farms in San Bernardino County. The risk of ...

With egg prices spiking due to bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced steps last week to control the H5N1 virus, such as increasing financial relief for farmers with affected ...

The H5N1 strain is particularly concerning due to its high mortality rate in birds and sporadic cases of transmission to humans. The virus spreads through direct contact with infected birds ...

India has reported its first case of H5N1 avian influenza in domestic cats, raising concerns about the virus's potential spread to humans. The cases were identified in Madhya Pradesh’s ...

SACRAMENTO, the United States -- Scientists are sounding the alarm about a concerning genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu ...

What exactly is H5N1 influenza and what defines avian flu? Yoshi Kawaoka: H5N1 is a subtype of influenza A virus known for primarily infecting birds. It’s called H5N1 because of two surface ...

Pasteurization is the only widely recognized method of killing H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu, in milk. However, pasteurization can be expensive and fewer than 50% of large dairy farms ...

Holstein calf feeds from a bottle of colostrum milk. UC Davis researchers have found that acidification of waste milk can kill H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu. (Richard Van Vleck Pereira / UC ...