Category: Avian Influenza
Promising bird flu vaccine advances as organoids reveal how H5N1 scars airways
Medical Express Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have developed a new, proof-of-concept vaccine to protect people from the bird flu strain currently circulating in the United States. The team, led by Professor Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Ph.D. and Staff Scientist Ahmed M. Elsayed, Ph.D., recently published initial results in npj Vaccines. The live attenuated vaccine contains a weakened (attenuated) […]
Aug 20, 2025
Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After All
Scientific American Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms. The H5N1 avian influenza virus can now be found not only in milk and on milking equipment but also in farm wastewater and in the air, say researchers who have been trying […]
Aug 13, 2025
Tracking HPAIV H5 through a geographic survey of Antarctic seabird populations
Nature An extensive survey for the detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus (HPAIV) H5 in seabird species is reported here. It was conducted between December 2023 and January 2024, in thirteen breeding sites spanning from the northeastern sector of the Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea, including the coasts of the Bellingshausen Sea and […]
Aug 13, 2025
Where Did Bird Flu Go?
American Scientific Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts warn that it hasn’t disappeared. For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle […]
Jul 30, 2025
The Invisible Toll of Bird Flu on Wildlife
Scientific American Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at scales no one fully understands. 25,669 Northern Gannets in Canada.134 harbor and gray seals along the coast of Maine.21 California Condors in the western U.S. These are just a tiny fraction of the […]
Jul 30, 2025
This is How We Fight Bird Flu If H5N1 Becomes the Next Human Pandemic
Scientific American This San Antonio, Tex., lab takes biosecurity seriously. Suit up with its scientists and go behind the scenes of the science of vaccine creation. This is the final episode of our three-part series on bird flu. Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 On Wednesday, we met scientists who are getting their hands dirty with […]
Jul 30, 2025
How Bird Flu Became a Human Pandemic Threat
Scientific American The first hints that a new strain of avian illness is emerging could be found on this beach on Delaware Bay, where migrating birds flock. Here’s what virus detectives who return there every year know right now. H5N1 bird flu has been making a lot of headlines since last year, and for good […]
Jul 30, 2025
What Would It Take for Bird Flu to Spread among Humans?
Scientific American H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year H5N1 did something strange: it started infecting cattle. The absolute oddity of this leap may have been somewhat lost in the flood of […]
Jul 30, 2025
Cambodia reports 14th human H5N1 bird flu infection in 2025
BNO News Cambodia has confirmed a new human case of H5N1 avian influenza in a 26-year-old man who is currently receiving intensive medical treatment, according to health officials. It is the country’s 14th confirmed human case of H5N1 this year. The man, from Kravan village in Siem Reap Province, tested positive for the virus on […]
Jul 30, 2025
Is Bird Flu Gone for Good?
Johns Hopkins U.S. bird flu infections have declined in both birds and mammals, prompting CDC to shift from weekly to monthly reporting. But is the outbreak really over? It’s not unusual for wild birds to be infected by influenza viruses. But the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza that began causing outbreaks in the U.S. in […]
Jul 23, 2025