Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists have been monitoring municipal wastewater to track the spread of pathogens like SARS-CoV-2 and, more recently, H5 (a biomarker for bird flu). Scientists in ...

Wastewater testing specifically for bird flu virus will scale up nationally in coming weeks. By Megan Molteni May 22, 2024. Reprints. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

Spikes of influenza A virus seen in wastewater samples from 59 sewer systems across 18 different states this spring may point to the spread of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that is currently ...

As health officials turn increasingly toward wastewater testing as a means of tracking the spread of H5N1 bird flu among U.S. dairy herds, some researchers are raising questions about the ...

The wastewater numbers tended to tick up in time to serve as a warning to the wary. But using that tool to track our current viral threat, the H5N1 bird flu that has begun circulating in cows, is ...

Using archived samples, they identified bird flu in wastewater as early as Feb. 25, before the first reports of cattle with unknown illnesses on March 7, and a full month before Texas confirmed ...

Signs of bird flu have been detected in San Francisco wastewater, although officials are unclear on their origin. Here, the skyline of downtown San Francisco can be seen through the suspension ...

Sequencing-Based Detection of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Wastewater in Ten Cities. The New England journal of medicine, 10.1056/NEJMc2405937. Advance online publication. https: ...

Bird flu, H5N1, is now showing up in Austin's wastewater, Austin Public Health said this month. It said, however, that the threat of a person contracting H5N1 still remains low.

The confusion began when wastewater showed an uptick of influenza A, a broad category that includes the H5N1 strain, in parts of the country at the same time bird flu came onto the public’s radar.