With the second human bird flu case in the United States in the past two years and the COVID-19 pandemic still fresh in the public’s memory, concern is rising over the potential for avian influenza to ...

Scientists from the United States have conducted a systematic review to understand whether cattle increase the risk of contracting vector-borne diseases by humans. The review is currently available on ...

A new study looking at the distribution of receptors that flu viruses can attach to in different cow tissues may help to explain the pattern of illness being seen in the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in U ...

Cows have entry portals for both human and bird flus. This new finding may mean that cattle could host both types of flus at once. The two viruses could then swap parts to create a new type of ...

The recent spread of avian influenza in dairy cattle in the U.S. has startled even some scientists who've tracked a global outbreak of the virus over the last few years. "There's a heap of unknowns ...

The two-year saga of rapid evolution and multi-species adaptation of H5N1 avian influenza took a drastic turn in recent weeks when the virus was detected numerous times in US cattle, raising fresh ...