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Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as bird flu spreads across all 50 states, impacting American dairy and poultry farms with dozens of people infected. Here's what to know.

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year ...

Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has sporadically ...

Virologists across the globe are raising alarms over the spread of the H5N1 avian flu virus, which is now infecting not just birds, but cattle and humans. While the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

"Our work provides new insight." Experts issue warning about concerning spread of West Nile virus: 'Varies genetically' first ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. H5N1 bird flu has been making a lot of headlines since last year, and for good reason: since March 2024 this subtype of ...

What are the symptoms of bird flu in humans? Understanding how to recognize a bird flu infection is an important when it ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads across all 50 states, impacting cows at US dairy farms, leading to human infections and raising concerns ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong have discovered that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common human virus closely linked to nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), can change the 3D structure of ...