The infection was detected in a single sheep in Yorkshire on Monday and, while bird flu does not spread easily to people, the ...

By most indications, the avian influenza outbreak that has washed over U.S. farms is at an ebb. Experts don’t seem hopeful, ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to become a pandemic”, according to a director at the UK Health Security ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

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

Richard Pebody said while the virus is ‘not new’ and the risk to the public remains low, its features have changed in recent ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...

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

The first known case of bird flu in a sheep anywhere in the world has been found on a Yorkshire farm. The case was identified ...

COVID-19 exposed the many ways in which we were ill-prepared to prevent and respond to pandemics. Are we applying those ...