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How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...
In early May, just as the US government was about to implement a long-debated policy regulating gain-of-function research ...
The first death caused by H5N1 bird flu was reported in January 2025. Some believe the virus could eventually pose a ...
Federal officials tracking bird flu have found the virus on poultry farms, but experts say the outbreaks are not currently a ...
Facing high egg prices, the Trump administration is considering vaccinating poultry against bird flu, but H5N1 is already out ...
The avian flu has not spread from human to human but ... There is no known person-to-person spread and the US’s national public health agency rates the current risk to the population ‘low’.