H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different ...

The first person to contract H5N5 avian influenza, a rare strain of the disease known as bird flu, died in Washington state on Friday. The state’s Department of Health said in a release that the ...

Health officials in the United States have confirmed that a man in Washington state has died after contracting a strain of bird flu that has never before been identified in humans. The man, who was ...

Now, in a new study looking at how these viruses were introduced and spread in North America, Louise H. Moncla from the School of Veterinary Medicine and her team have found that wild birds are ...