With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking about a ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

State officials say the highly pathogenic avian influenza – more commonly known as bird flu – is widespread in much of the ...

It was first identified in geese in Southern China in 1996 ... becoming the first death in the US from bird flu. Both of these patients had the D1.1 strain of the virus, which is circulating ...

The case fatality rate is approximately 52%, per the CDC. The countries reporting the highest number of human bird flu deaths are Indonesia, Egypt, Vietnam, Cambodia and China. The case fatality rate ...

The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

For example, H5N1, H7N9, and H5N6 have led to several deaths globally, even though human-to-human transmission remains rare. Here are some recent bird flu cases worldwide: In February 2021 ...