Clare Howard was one of the first people to be vaccinated against the bird flu strain The first volunteers in the UK have been immunised with a vaccine to protect against a potential bird flu pandemic ...

Are seasonal flu antibodies also effective against avian flu? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has shown that a specific type of antibody associated with the former virus—already present ...

Former WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has warned a future pandemic could be 'much worse than coronavirus'.

Virologists and public health specialists have warned about the pandemic threat for years. H5N1, a problem in chickens for decades, first infected humans in 1997, in an outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Is the United States prepared for an avian flu pandemic? Over the past few weeks, headlines about the avian flu have appeared in several media outlets, fueling confusion and concern among many people.

Bird flu cases reported in parts of Maharashtra have triggered fresh public health concern, especially after infected poultry were detected in affected zones. While human infections remain rare, ...

Bird flu has flown off the national news radar, with only scattered, local reports of dead birds in parks and poultry farms. Is it simply no longer a concern, or have cuts to federal science funding ...

The first volunteers in the UK have been immunised with a vaccine to protect against a potential bird flu pandemic. The vaccine targets the H5N1 flu strain which has caused devastating infections in ...