Poultry and cows risk exposure to sick wild birds migrating across the Americas. Here is how annual bird migration could ...
Health officials have found a possible sign that a highly contagious disease could be quickly spreading in Upstate New York.
The virus has killed tens of millions of birds and infected hundreds of species of animals, including dairy cattle in the ...
While a multi-state spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been detected in livestock and one human throughout the last few months, no cases have yet to be reported in New York state.
Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, the UN agency's acting director for pandemic preparedness, said it was a 'certainty' the continent would face the threat of influenza.
Maddy is an editor and writer at IFLScience, with a degree in biochemistry from the University of York. The USDA Animal and ...
May 21, 2024 — Currently available flu medications only target the virus after it has already established an infection, but what if a drug could prevent infection in the first place? Now ...
When a child in a small Cambodian town fell sick recently, his rapid decline set off a global disease surveillance system.
The new case, in a Michigan farmworker, did not suggest that bird flu was widespread in people, health officials said, adding ...
The H5N1 strain of avian flu has been around since 1996, but until now its been largely confined to animals. But it has now ...
Australia earlier this week reported its first human case of avian influenza in a child in Victoria whom authorities said had ...
The slight evolution in the virus is associated with ‘adaptation to mammalian hosts’, according to the Centre for Disease Control ...