Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

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

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...

The State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the InnoHK Center for ...

Centre says human-to-human transmission of H5N1 virus is uncommon, but a national joint outbreak response team has been deployed to undertake an epidemiological investigation.

Experts warn that the rapidly mutating H5N1 bird flu virus is weakening existing antibodies raising pandemic concerns Could ...

H5N1 is a subtype of the influenza A virus that primarily affects birds but according to the current data, this virus has now gained the potential to evade the human immune system and wreak havoc ...

Scientists comment on the first case of Avian Flu (H5N1) confirmed in a sheep in Yorkshire. Dr Colin Butter, Associate Professor in Bioveterinary Science, University of Lincoln, said: ...

The viruses that cause avian influenza are potential threats to global health. Recent animal outbreaks from a subtype called H5N1 have been especially troubling to scientists. Although human ...

A three-year-and-six-month boy from northeast Cambodia's Kratie province has been confirmed positive for H5N1 human avian ...