The U.S. Department of Agriculture ... The study also noted a new and rare combination of genes in the bird flu virus that spilled over into the cows, and researchers are sorting out whether ...

STAT recently spoke to Erica Pan, California’s state epidemiologist, about what public health officials are doing to monitor ...

As the virus makes the jump from birds to cows and other mammals, what’s stopping it from jumping to all of us? In the last few years, a couple dozen people ... we’re in a new era of bird flu.

A third farmworker has tested positive for bird flu in California, according to the state’s health department. If confirmed ...

The U.S. Department ... practices on farms, should avoid the need for regulatory restrictions. Officials reported last month that bird flu primarily affected older cows, though additional data ...

While most human infections in the current outbreak have been mild and self-limiting, each new host gives the virus a chance to get better at infecting people. “To be clear, we have no evidence ...

COVID-19 is no longer the public threat it was in 2020, writes retired Santa Cruz physician Jeoffry Gordon, but our public officials have not learned from the tragedy. Bird flu, known as H5N1, is on ...