The detection of a deadly strain of bird flu in seals in Australia may have you wondering about the risk to humans. Although H5N1 has previously spread to mammals elsewhere in the world, the chance of ...

Yet not a single person caught influenza. The unexpected finding comes from a well-designed study that set out to answer a basic question: how does flu really spread? Influenza, the virus responsible ...

(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – April 15, 2026) An international group of scientists mapped the spread of the current dominant strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus through North American bird ...

Avian influenza (bird flu) causes significant illness and mortality in both wild birds and domestic poultry. Bird movement patterns play an important role in the spatial spread of bird flu. New ...

Johanna Harvey, an assistant professor of wildlife disease ecology at the University of Rhode Island, has described bird flu in public presentations as a quiet virus with loud consequences. Now, she's ...

While the highly virulent avian influenza strain has only recently been discovered on Australian shores, researchers at Deakin University have been working behind the scenes for years, anticipating ...

A rare human challenge-style trial shows that even with poor ventilation and prolonged exposure, influenza may fail to spread unless viral shedding, host susceptibility, and air dynamics align just ...

Flu season is upon us, and millions will catch the virus. Last year, at least 32 million Americans got influenza, leading to almost 400,000 hospitalizations and at least 24,000 deaths. But a bout of ...

Closer evaluation of the viruses led the researchers to classify them as low risk for human-to-human spread in their current form. The study was published today in Nature Medicine. A highly pathogenic ...

A group of volunteers spent days locked in a small hotel room with people actively infected with flu. They played games, shared objects and exercised together in conditions designed to help the virus ...