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China has banned imports of poultry and related products from Spain over an avian influenza outbreak from Thursday, the customs administration said in a notice dated August 7 released on its website.

The complete genome of an early strain of "Spanish flu" - which killed up to 100,000 people between 1918 and 1920 - has been ...

The Spanish Flu Pandemic, also known as La Grippe Espagnole, or La Pesadilla, was an unusually severe and deadly strain of avian influenza, a viral infectious disease, that killed some 50 million ...

The 1918 “Spanish flu,” which killed more than 50 million people worldwide, was likely the recombined product of a human and avian flu.

Credit: Patrick Reijnders via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Bloody snouts, clumsiness—these were among the signs last October that mink on a Spanish fur farm had a problem. The subsequent ...

When a chicken has avian flu, it’s not that hard to tell. The incubation period is relatively short, and when they get sick, they get really sick, and can even drop dead, seemingly out of nowhere.

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first ...

Scientists decode how the 1918 flu rapidly adapted to humans—much earlier than thought.

Two Spanish poultry farm workers tested positive for bird flu following an outbreak in poultry, in what appears to be the first known human infections in Spain and the second in Europe since 2003 ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant ...

Reports of bears and sea lions infected with H5N1 have sparked fears about the pandemic potential of bird flu. Experts are keeping a close eye on its spread.