The CDC advised pet owners not to feed raw animal products to cats and for vets to use protective equipment A veterinary ...

H5N1 strains have been circulating among wild and domestic birds in the U.S. since 2021. In 2024, it began to cause outbreaks in dairy cows. It also became apparent that cats could catch H5N1 from ...

On 7th May in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first case of bird flu ...

The H5N1 strain has a history of causing severe illness in humans, with a global death rate of about 48 percent between 2003 and 2025, based on nearly 1,000 cases reported to the World Health ...

Former WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has warned a future pandemic could be 'much worse than coronavirus'.

While the disease primarily affects birds, health experts say certain strains of the virus, especially H5N1, can occasionally infect humans and cause severe illness.

Clare Howard was one of the first people to be vaccinated against the bird flu strain The first volunteers in the UK have been immunised with a vaccine to protect against a potential bird flu pandemic ...

Over 150,000 chickens were culled in Maharashtra after an H5N1 bird flu outbreak. While ICMR and NCDC are monitoring, no human cases are reported. Experts assert human-to-human transmission is rare, ...

H5N1 influenza surveillance on California dairy farms found airborne virus, wastewater contamination, and subclinical ...