The local pups, unaware of the spread of the highly pathogenic virus among their northern California cousins, are learning to ...

The current wave is unfolding against a backdrop of persistent H5N1 activity. Since the outbreak began in 2022, the virus has ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, a virus that spilled over from birds into marine mammals along the coast of South America, was linked to an estimated 52,000 pinniped deaths (seals and sea ...

A recent study revealed that the arrival of the deadly H5N1 ‘bird flu’ virus has reached Antarctica. Scientists believe it arrived via migratory Antarctic skuas that travel from South America, where a ...

Cambodian authorities have confirmed a new human case of H5N1 avian influenza, this time involving a three-year-old boy in ...

Despite more than five years without incursion, H5N1 2.3.4.4b is edging closer to New Zealand, raising questions about how ...

When the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Asia in 1996, there was little indication that it would become so widespread and so destructive. Within 30 ...

More than four out of every five dead black vultures examined by University of Georgia researchers tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, according to a new study published in ...

In an update yesterday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said consumers and retailers should not eat, ...

Taiwanese health officials say the H7 avian flu virus does not contain any mutations that would increase the risk of bird-to-human transmission.

Scientists recently confirmed that a variation of the avian influenza virus is responsible for sea bird deaths in Antarctica. Researchers from Erasmus MC in the Netherlands and the University of ...