Currently, the CDC and U.S. federal government have no vaccine for the H5N1 bird flu, but some are in development, including one from Moderna. How Likely Is It that Bird Flu Will Turn into a Pandemic?

H5N1 bird flu, prevalent in U.S. wild birds, has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, leading to 70 human cases and one death since 2024. Experts are divided on the pandemic ...

The new assessment, developed using the CDC’s influenza risk assessment tool or IRAT, gauged the risk the virus might someday cause a pandemic at 5.79, up from a previous score of 5.12 from an ...

The risk of a bird flu pandemic depends on whether the virus stays primarily an animal disease, with occasional spillover infections, or mutates to be a human illness.

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

Bird flu could become a "serious problem" next year and risks becoming a pandemic, an expert has warned.. Conor Meehan, of Nottingham Trent University, said that a single mutation of the virus ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a broad term that refers to several types of influenza that normally infect birds. The bird flu that’s been making news in the United States is a virus called H5N1.

The risk of a bird flu pandemic is rising Human cases in the US are on the rise and the virus is turning up in cows and dairy products. Luckily, we have some vaccines ready to go if needed.

Bird flu outbreaks are a numbers game, and the numbers are turning against us. Skip to main content. ... Yet dialing back pandemic influenza risk is within our reach. Immediately, ...

As avian influenza sweeps the nation — infecting more than 58.3 million poultry and 6,192 wild birds in the U.S. as of Wednesday, per the CDC — infectious disease experts are watching closely ...

Among the world's top influenza experts, there's no consensus on bird flu pandemic risk, but all agree unchecked circulation in dairy cattle is unwise. Skip to Main Content.

Bird Flu Mutation: Risk of New Pandemic Explained. Story by Peter Aitken • 1w. T he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that while the risk of human to human transmission remains ...