UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the ongoing risk of pandemics, highlighting concerns over vaccine skepticism, ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

Dr Wong says people who do end up infected with the current strains of bird flu “commonly have only mild symptoms such as ...

Bird flu, aka severe avian influenza (“H5N1 bird flu”), spiked in the ... The virus has killed 24,000 sea lions along the coast of Chile and Peru before spreading south the the Antarctic ...

H5N1 bird flu outbreak in US witnesses a sharp rise in egg prices ... The contagion among sea mammals is believed to have started in Peru and spread to Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and now Brazil. UK ...

For example, in Peru, thousands of Peruvian pelicans have died ... humans will be caught unprepared and ill-equipped to tackle bird flu. “Ever since H5N1 [bird flu] showed up,” says Osterholm, “I tend ...

Rats in Riverside County are the latest mammal species to be infected with H5N1 bird flu Identification of virus in rats raises concerns about potential infection pathways to people and their pets ...

Researchers have found that acidification can kill H5N1 in waste milk, providing dairy farmers an affordable, easy-to-use alternative to pasteurization. Pasteurization is the only widely ...

The H5N1 virus is responsible for a worldwide avian flu pandemic in chickens. The virus has been determined to be a subtype of the influenza A virus and was first observed in China in 1996. Since ...

Cows in Nevada have been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu different from the strain detected in all other herds to this point in the ongoing dairy outbreak. It's the same strain that killed ...