Researchers have discovered the first giant virus in Finland. The specimen demonstrates that such huge viruses are more ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

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

Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but the recent appearance in mammals of the potentially dangerous avian ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Flu virus that can lead to paralysis and brain swelling detected in California’s wastewater - This comes on the heels of one ...

If you really want to feed wild birds, you need to have the feeder in an area that your cat or dog is not able to access.

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

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...