Avian influenza, or bird flu, is highly infectious in birds and usually fatal. While it doesn't spread to humans nearly as much, it has a high fatality rate.

Outbreaks of avian flu are decimating poultry farms, but the virus doesn't yet pose a significant threat to humans. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV Subscribe Subscribe ...

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Most human cases of bird flu in the U.S. have been mild so far, and most had known exposure to sick or infected animals. Avian influenza A viruses are very different from human seasonal influenza ...

The swine flu pandemic of 2009 was a “quadruple-reassortant virus” made up of swine, avian and human flu genes. Over 60 million people got sick between April 2009-2010, and almost 12,500 ...

Avian flu is a respiratory disease in birds, and it occurs in commercial birds and wild birds. Cline says it is rare for the virus to affect humans.

According to a new study published in the journal Science by Scripps Research Institute biologists, the avian H5N1 virus has the potential to quickly shift from a bird flu to a human flu. The ...

There have been 61 reported human cases of the avian influenza strain known as H5N1 since April 2024, per the CDC. The individual from Louisiana who contracted the severe case has been hospitalized.

She added that human avian flu is not new. It has been around globally for more for than 20 years with sporadic human cases. “I am reassured that in the last 20 years we have not seen very many ...

Avian influenza has raged through Michigan's bird population for two years, forcing commercial farmers and people with backyard coops to kill nearly 6.8 million infected chickens and turkeys ...

India's first human avian flu case was confirmed in 2019. The cases in India involve a different bird flu virus than the one infecting animals and several people in the U.S., where it is the H5N1 ...