The emergency response to the bird flu has ended, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on July 7.
“As reports of animal infections with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus (“H5N1 bird flu”) have declined and no human cases have been reported since February 2025, on July 2, 2025, CDC’s H5N1 emergency bird flu response was deactivated to transition back to regular program activity,” a spokesperson for the agency told news outlets in a statement.
The CDC said in an update on Monday on its website that it is streamlining updates on the bird flu. That includes scaling back the cadence of data reporting for people being monitored and tested for the bird flu. The data will be reported on a monthly basis moving forward….