More than two years after H5N1 bird flu was first detected in U.S. dairy cattle, the virus has proven remarkably good at infecting cows and flooding raw milk with viral material. What it has not done, ...

A computational structural analysis of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b hemagglutinin reveals multiple independent molecular mechanisms by ...

How do we know when an animal virus might pose a risk to humans? Canada confirmed a human case of H5N1 avian influenza (often ...

The detection of a deadly strain of bird flu in seals in Australia may have you wondering about the risk to humans. Although H5N1 has previously spread to mammals elsewhere in the world, the chance of ...

When a B.C. teenager became critically ill with H5N1 avian influenza in November 2024, Canada's first human case, scientists ...

The H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in over 700 herds of dairy cows in California, the largest dairy-producing state in the U.S. A study published in PLOS ...

University of British Columbia researchers say the unusual genetic mutations identified in Canada’s first human avian ...

Infectious H5N1 virus detected in dairy farm air and wastewater, alongside evidence of hidden cattle infections, suggests an outbreak may be spreading through more routes than previously recognized.

These findings alone do not mean that the bird flu virus is on its way to creating another pandemic, the researchers said. The bird flu virus strain that is rampant among dairy cows in the U.S. may ...

In fall 2024 a Fraser Valley teen became critically ill from the H5N1 avian flu virus. A year later a man in Louisiana died ...