Bird flu has been in the headlines recently as a highly pathogenic strain spread around the world and three separate strains ...

While authorities are downplaying the dangers of the H5N1 virus, it can evolve very rapidly and every spillover event into ...

Australia is untouched by a virus that has devastated wildlife around the planet, but the spring migration from Antarctica is ...

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man ...

“We have recently invested an extra $7m to focus on the threats posed by this strain of avian influenza, and more than $1bn ...

Volunteers and authorities are on high alert for any signs they could be carrying the highly infectious H5N1 form of bird flu. The rapidly spreading form of the disease has infected every continent in ...

Seasonal flu vaccines may reduce the risk of a hybrid strain of the virus developing – one with some characteristics of ...

Seasonal flu vaccines protect against influenza infection, and may also reduce the risk of simultaneous infection with human ...

Just how deadly is the H5N1 avian flu? The virus, which is currently sweeping through U.S. dairy herds, rarely jumps to human ...

A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the ...

Previous human infections occurred in workers on farms. But community transmission of the virus remains unlikely for now, ...