Avian influenza, which primarily affects poultry, has now adapted to wild birds, accompanying them in their journeys across ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday. The infection was confirmed on Tuesday in a ...

A two-year-old girl from Andhra Pradesh's Palnadu district died from H5N1 avian influenza after her parents made her eat a piece of raw chicken. According to health authorities, the toddler’s death is ...

“This is how pandemics start.” This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal pandemic—status, killing birds in every ...

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next pandemic. Along the untamed coast of southern Victoria, where thyme rice ...

India has reported eight outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in farms and backyard poultry, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Friday, citing Indian authorities. The outbreaks ...

Seven H5N1 subtype strains were analyzed for NA gene evolution ... The H9 subtype avian influenza virus is globally distributed and classified into Eurasian and American lineages based on HA genes ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota was on track to declare itself free of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI, also known as H5N1) on Friday, but state officials cautioned on Wednesday that is not ...

In the US, where H5N1 has swept through the country’s dairy cattle, more than 70 people have been infected since January 2024. One patient, a Louisiana man in his 60s, died of the disease.

Prince Edward Islanders are being reminded to keep their distance from sick, dying or dead wildlife as avian influenza — commonly known as bird flu or H5N1 — continues to circulate on the Island.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the "potential to become a pandemic", according to an expert at the UK Health Security Agency. Richard Pebody, director of epidemic and emerging infections at UKHSA ...

H5N1 influenza normally spreads between sick poultry, but it can sometimes spread from poultry to humans. Cambodia reports third fatal human H5N1 case of the year. (Photo: cidrap.umn.edu) Hanoi – A ...