As the world is just beginning to recover from the devastation of Covid-19, it is facing the possibility of a pandemic of a far more deadly pathoge

The bird flu has proven scary enough with its occasional spreads from birds to mammals of all sorts, but the study published in Eurosurveillance ca

Scientists say an outbreak on a Spanish mink farm and in UK foxes are the kind of ‘spillover events’ that could spark a human epidemic

Latest figures show bird flu has led to the death of around 208 million birds and there have been at least 200 recorded cases in mammals, the BBC r

PARIS, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Romania has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, on a farm in the ce

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A genetic analysis of the H5N1 influenza virus in the current avian pandemic has located it in a clade (virus family) circulating among poultry and

Concern is rising among health experts about the possibility of an H5N1 avian flu pandemic, as the strain has now been found in mammals.

Of the 13 most recent outbreaks — starting in the period January 17-22 — 12 occurred in the central-western province of Greater Poland.

Recently, an HPAI H5N1 infection was detected at a mink farm in Spain, where there was possible spread of the virus between the animals.

For that price—50 damn cents each!—my daily sunny-side-up eggs will have to wait.

Since highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) was first detected in US birds in January 2022, the price of a carton of a dozen eggs has sh

In updates posted over the last few days, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reported m

In the U.S. alone, the H5N1 avian flu strain has killed nearly 58 million birds in the last year.

The strain— first identified in domestic waterfowl in China in 1996 —is behind nearly 58 million U.S. bird deaths in the past year.

These viruses infect birds and — rarely — spread among humans. One virus that causes bird flu is called H5N1.

A mutation in the outbreak strain may have public health implications, given that it is present in the 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu virus.

More than seven million captive birds have died of bird flu or been culled for disease control since an outbreak started in October 2021, the Gover

"Your daily process is to raise animals, either for meat or to collect eggs daily from them.

The presence of H5N1 variant, which has an additional proliferative capacity, was confirmed among the poultry in the local farm managed by the dist

The presence of H5N1 variant, which has an additional proliferative capacity, was confirmed among the poultry in the local farm managed by the dist

A strain of bird flu that’s very contagious and deadly among chickens has infected birds in nearly every state in the U.S.

The country said eggs and poultry from Angus would not be permitted due to concerns over the spread of the deadly disease.

Local poultry farmers are on alert because federal rules require the destruction of the entire flock if even a single bird is infected.