The infection was detected in a single sheep in Yorkshire on Monday and, while bird flu does not spread easily to people, the ...

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next ...

The United States is facing a growing threat from the H5N1 bird flu outbreak. Scientists are concerned that existing vaccines ...

Avian influenza is “evolving in ways we haven’t seen before,” says Martha Nelson, a computational biologist and staff scientist researching pathogen evolution at the National Institutes of ...

Experts warn that South Africa is on the brink of an avian influenza disaster, urging the government to act swiftly to ...

By most indications, the avian influenza outbreak that has washed over U.S. farms is at an ebb. Experts don’t seem hopeful, ...

India has reported eight outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in farms and backyard poultry, the World Organisation ...

The UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed a case of influenza of avian origin (H5N1) in a single sheep in Yorkshire ...

Yoshi Kawaoka: These strains belong to different clades, or subgroups, within the H5N1 family, which means that their genetic makeup is slightly different. Some emerged in the previous outbreaks ...

In today’s Health Alert, the spread of H5N1 bird flu has reached an unprecedented level, according to the United Nations Food ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the "potential to become a pandemic", according to an expert at the UK Health Security Agency. Richard Pebody, director of epidemic and emerging infections at UKHSA ...