Preventing Avian Influenza. Prevention of avian influenza largely involves minimizing exposure to infected birds and animals. If you are handling live poultry, ...

Avian Influenza: Prevention, Progress, and Public Health Priorities. Author(s): Maggie L. Shaw, Asha Shah, MD. To learn more about the recent bird flu outbreaks, we spoke with Asha Shah, MD ...

Avian influenza viruses occur naturally among wild aquatic birds such as ducks, geese, gulls, swans and others, according to the CDC. The highly contagious virus can spread to chickens, ducks ...

English Edition. Medscape. ... A review of the avian influenza A/H5N1 ... there is no evidence that vaccines or antivirals used in the treatment or prevention of such an outbreak would decrease ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are monitoring the bird flu situation in the United States. Here's what to know and how to stay safe.

The USDA announced on Thursday that up to $100 million in funding will be available to support projects on avian influenza, prevention, therapeutics, vaccines and research.

As cases of H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu, continue to surface across the U.S., safety precautions are ramping up. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

But decades later, English scientists had learned that influenza was spread by a virus, and that flu virus grew easily in fertilized hen eggs, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Which gave rise, recently, to a troubling thought: Will our efforts against H5N1 — or bird flu, as we know it — bind us to a similar Sisyphean-like struggle?

An avian influenza prevention zone (AIPZ) has been extended across the whole of England. The move, as of midday on Saturday, was made by the UK chief veterinary officer following an escalation in the ...

An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone, or AIPZ, has been declared across four counties in England after bird flu was detected in a number of wild and captive birds in the region. The counties ...

A worrying spike in bird flu cases in England is causing concern among health chiefs, and an avian influenza prevention zone (AIPZ) is being extended to mitigate the risk of further outbreaks of ...