Before future studies would uncover a link between Nipah outbreaks and the felling of native forests for the purposes of ...

The USDA enrolled another 15 states in a national program to test milk for highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. Image: Adobe Stock Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota ...

Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 permitted dairy farms will undergo testing once a month for H5N1, the virus commonly known as bird flu. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

But those tests cannot detect bird flu. Testing for H5N1 avian influenza requires a second test that most hospitals and health-care facilities do not have. Hospital staff and clinicians should ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues report that a single dose of a broadly neutralizing antibody (bnAb) administered prior to virus exposure protects macaques from ...

can test positive. Asked if the case took place in California, where 36 of the 40 cases of H5N1 connected to dairy have occurred, a spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Public Health said ...

The team has developed specialized tools and animal models to test prophylactic vaccines and therapeutic antivirals. In the recent study, they compared H5N1 strains isolated from a human patient ...

Subtyping can help avoid delays in identifying H5N1 infections, which are more likely when seasonal flu activity is high, as it is now, according to the HAN. A test that is positive for influenza ...

A CHILD tested positive for H5N1 bird flu after experiencing conjunctivitis, health officials have confirmed. The patient, from San Francisco, California, also had a fever and tested positive for ...

As bird flu spreads in the United States, are there are any risks of the virus from drinking milk or eating eggs? Here's what you need to know, according to experts.