Bhubaneswar: Nandankanan Zoological Park has implemented comprehensive bio-security measures to protect its bird species ...

An avian influenza pandemic remains within the realm of possibility. To reduce the risk, we need to engage in a One Health ...

Avian influenza is a contagious viral infection that mainly affects birds. On occasion, avian influenza can infect humans and other mammals.   Avian influenza (AI) A (H5N1) is an influenza virus that ...

Is bird flu actually a threat to your cat? Bird flu can spread to cats and other domestic pets through a variety of ways, ...

That's how the head of the World Health Organization paid tribute to Nabarro's lifelong public health leadership. A physician ...

Studies suggest that people who had seasonal flus or vaccinations have low antibody levels against H5N1 bird flu.

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle ...

Bacteriologist and parasitologist Michelle Jakaitis uses a microscope to view a training sample of veligers, which are the ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The ...

The threat of another influenza pandemic arising from bird-to-human and then human-to-human transmission drives continuing efforts to develop effective vaccines against avian influenza. In the latest ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday it has ended its emergency response for H5N1 bird flu, owing to a decline in animal infections and no reports of human cases ...

As bird flu evolves, keeping it out of farm flocks is getting harder New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading ...