New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Just five years after the coronavirus pandemic struck, another animal-borne disease is mutating and spreading across borders ...

Most people who are allergic to cats aren’t reacting to the fur—they’re reacting to a protein in cat saliva called Fel d 1.

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

While the immediate public health risk from the H5N1 bird flu remains low, the University of Florida (UF) is taking ...

Zoo director Vikas Yadav said a total of 72 samples were sent to NISHAD in phases. The lab reports confirmed negative results ...

Cambodia's health ministry yesterday reported two more human H5N1 avian flu cases, part of a spike in cases in June, with six ...

Instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should just let it spread through flocks!

The CDC is ending its emergency response to bird flu, citing a significant drop in cases between February and July.

BIRD flu has been detected in an English farm, it’s been announced. A case of the H5N1 bird flu was found in poultry in West Yorkshire. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ...

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...