Purdue University has received $2.7 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to develop a field test that can measure and ...

Viral spillover occurs when a virus spills out from an animal population into people. Treana Mayer/BioRender, CC BY-ND How spillover works. Spillover involves any type of disease-causing pathogen ...

The widespread detection of influenza A(H5N1) virus in wastewater from 10 U.S. cities is troubling. Although the exact origin of the signal is currently unknown, the lack of clinical burden along ...

Bird flu can spread quickly when infectious respiratory droplets are inhaled by birds and other animals, and the virus' frequent mutations make airborne transmission to humans a concern.

Airborne transmission was corroborated by the detection of infectious virus shed into the air by infected animals, albeit at lower levels compared to the highly transmissible human seasonal and ...