At least 58 people in the U.S. have been infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus this year, according to federal statistics. All but two of them had been around cows or chickens, two species in which ...

State, Mexico, on June 6, 2024. A bird flu virus spreading widely among U.S. cattle only needs to change slightly to potentially pass between humans, scientists have found. Researchers probing an ...

California researchers say the world may be just one genetic tweak away from human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus — a worrisome mutation that could open the door to widespread ...

As the name suggests, “bird flu” has mostly stuck to spreading ... more proficient at spreading between mammals — including humans.

A new study has raised alarm bells about the potential for the H5N1 bird flu virus to evolve into a strain sparking a human pandemic. A single mutation in the virus currently ravaging dairy farms ...

They often return to re-hide a food item if they feel other jays (or humans) were watching the ... I see many abandoned birds’ nests on my daily walks. I’d like to collect some to make a ...

Their luck may be changing from being disparaged as ‘flying rats’ to being loved and appreciated once more as affectionate companionable pets. A recent newspaper article tells me that a New York ...

It would take just a single mutation in the version of bird flu that has swept through US cattle herds to produce a virus adept at latching on to human cells, a much simpler step than previously ...

Footprints from two hominin species found in Kenya suggest they lived and interacted together over a million years ago. Over ...