Last month, many stores put signs in their egg cases to explain that as of Jan. 1, most eggs sold in Michigan had to be from ...

Bird flu has been detected in a Georgia commercial poultry flock for the first time since a countrywide outbreak in 2022.

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...

Smithfield Foods’ CEO says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more attractive ever ...

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

Transmission has largely been documented in poultry. While hummingbirds are likely safe, bird feeders could attract infected ...

Second human case of H5N1 bird flu has been deteced in the UK. It is the second symptomatic human case of H5N1 bird flu ...

Groulx said the evolution of a pandemic strain “is a pressing concern,” and has been seen before. In 2009, the H1N1 virus — also called the swine flu — was a “re-assortment of avian influenza, human ...

The US just recorded the first death from severe bird flu. Experts say it's not too early, or unreasonable, to prepare for the worst.

This phenomenon is called reassortment. The 2009 swine flu outbreak is thought to have been the result of reassortment between avian, swine and human influenza viruses. “We already know that ...