JSE-listed poultry producer Astral Foods has been given official approval to begin vaccinating its broiler breeding stock ...

Caption: Memorial University microbiologist Andrew Lang, left, University of Melbourne scientist Michelle Wille and Andy Ramey of the United States Geological Survey Alaska Science Centre are ...

Since 2022, the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected in all 50 states, leading to more than 1,700 recorded outbreaks affecting nearly 175 million birds.

Within days, Crescent Duck Farm, a century-old institution and the last duck farm remaining in a New York region once ...

The Gs/Gd lineage of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza viruses—including H5N1—has rapidly evolved, spreading globally and infecting a growing range of birds, mammals, and occasionally ...

WASHBURN: Avian influenza rampages across North Iowa Lowell Washburn Special to the Globe Gazette Dec 28, 2024 0 2 min to read 1 of 4 ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able to bind to human receptors. This finding underscores that certain bird flu ...

Avian influenza has severely impacted poultry flocks globally, reducing the U.S. flock by 22%. The virus has spread to more than a dozen mammals, including humans, with one human death reported in ...

image: A predicted interaction between a human antibody (in green; FLD194) and an avian influenza HA protein (in yellow; GISAID: EPI3158642). Rendered by Colby Ford with Blender and Molecular Nodes.

The Virus Is Already Moving to Humans Human cases of avian influenza. Image credits: CDC. On April 2, 2024, a dairy worker in Texas came down sick. He was infected with the avian flu that was most ...

A new variant of the bird flu has infected a dairy worker in Nevada, marking the state's first human case of the H5N1 avian influenza. The worker was exposed to the D1.1 strain after working with ...

Bird flu is caused by several influenza viruses, including H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Verardi explains that two specific genotypes, D1.1 and B3.13, are subjects of ongoing ...