Category: Avian Influenza
UTMB Study Finds Evidence of Avian Influenza Virus Infections in Farm Workers
UTMB When highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) was first confirmed in U.S. dairy cattle in early 2024, it challenged assumptions about which species are at risk from “bird flu”. Follow-up investigations show that this virus can spread efficiently within and between dairy herds and occasionally infect other mammals, including cats and humans [1]. Few […]
Nov 26, 2025
Bird flu mystery in Michigan: What happened to infections among dairy herds?
Fox/Detroit Michigan is managing eight different outbreaks of bird flu among its commercial poultry farms and several others among backyard flocks as transmission rates pick up. According to the state’s agriculture director, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is trending at a similar pace as they’ve seen in previous years. That’s good news after last year’s outbreak […]
Nov 26, 2025
First Human Dies of Rare H5N5 Bird Flu Strain. Here’s What You Need to Know
American Scientific A person in the Washington State has died of avian influenza. It’s the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. since January—but the infection was of a different strain than the one that has been devastating poultry farms and wild animals for the past several years. The Washington State Department of Health announced the death on Friday, noting […]
Nov 26, 2025
First human bird-flu death from H5N5 – what you need to know
The Conversation H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first recorded human case of an H5N5 avian influenza virus. What is this virus and how concerned about it should we be? What happened? In early November, a resident of Grays Harbor, a […]
Nov 26, 2025
H5N1 bird flu cases spike in Europe. How worried should we be?
The Conversation On November 13, Spain’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food imposed the confinement of all free-range poultry farms to curb the spread of avian influenza – more commonly known as “bird flu” – caused by the H5N1 virus. This drastic, though not unprecedented, measure was justified by climbing numbers of outbreaks in Europe, as well […]
Nov 19, 2025
Bird Flu Wiped Out Nearly Half of the Females in the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Drone Images Suggest
Smithsonian Magazine Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit. Scaled to the whole island, that’s a potential loss of more than 50,000 of the animals. In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to […]
Nov 19, 2025
H5N5 Avian influenza confirmed in Grays Harbor County resident
Washington DoH A Grays Harbor resident who was hospitalized with influenza symptoms in early November has been confirmed to have influenza A H5, a type of avian influenza. Additional testing shows the virus to be H5N5, an avian influenza virus that has previously been reported in animals but never before in humans. The Centers for […]
Nov 19, 2025
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Germany’s bird flu cases at three-year high with ‘no relief in sight’ Reuters Germany has already recorded in 2025 its highest number of bird flu outbreaks in three years and there is no relief in sight, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute for Animal Diseases said, as Europe witnessed a sharp resurgence of the deadly disease. The spread of […]
Nov 12, 2025
‘Bird flu means rare breeds will disappear’
BBC A farmer has said she no longer breeds rare chicks due to more frequent outbreaks of bird flu. North Yorkshire has seen four confirmed cases of avian influenza in recent weeks, with a mandatory housing order now in place across England. Angela Serino, who runs Beetle Bank Farm on the outskirts of York, has […]
Nov 12, 2025
Symptom-free H5N1 infection in humans: Evidence remains scarce
Medical Express Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified a few instances of asymptomatic human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. Widespread in wild birds worldwide, H5N1 has been causing outbreaks in poultry for several years. Recent “egg-flation” price increases for eggs in the US were largely due to a […]
Nov 12, 2025