In a monthly zoonotic flu update, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Bangladesh and India have reported new H5N1 avian ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The absolute ...

The number of pathways that avian influenza can be transferred between dairy herds, and to poultry flocks, is extensive.

A Yunlin goose farm had to put down 2,600 birds after a case of H5N1 avian flu. It's one of 17 Taiwanese poultry farms since ...

In contrast, H5N1 often kills birds that catch it, so it is classified as a highly pathogenic avian influenza. To complicate matters, although bird flu viruses primarily prey on birds, they can ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to ...

T he H5N1 bird flu virus has been around for decades, and the damage it wreaks on chickens and other poultry is well documented. But the recent discovery that the virus has jumped into dairy ...

February 23, 2012 — The World Health Organization's H5N1 diagnostic criteria only identify the sickest patients, which has resulted in alarming fatality rates that are inaccurate, according to ...

Bird flu was probably circulating in dairy cows for at least four months before it was confirmed to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, according to a new analysis of genomic data by scientists ...