As cases of seasonal influenza surge, health officials are closely monitoring a growing threat—the potential fusion of human and bird flu strains.

A team of government veterinarians with the State Veterinary Institute Prague in the Czech Republic has found possible evidence of windborne H5N1 infections in chickens. In their paper posted on the ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

Avian flu has been spreading across the United States since 2022, with several cases even being detected in humans,including ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, has been detected on commercial farms in California and other parts of the U.S. The most recent outbreak of the highly transmissible strain of bird flu ...

There’s more to bird flu than expensive eggs. You may have noticed egg prices going up, and even eggs being scarce. Bird flu ...

Bird flu, Covid-19, and influenza are all respiratory infections spreading through respiratory droplets. While influenza ...

Experts have their eyes on the situation. And, under the right circumstances, a bird flu vaccine might become necessary, they say. "The avian influenza situation is alarming simply because we see so ...

The outbreak of avian flu, which began in turkeys in February 2022, has already led to the death of 150m birds, including 41m ...

An outbreak of avian influenza affecting poultry and livestock has led to the culling of hundreds of millions of birds, ...