India’s ongoing battle with bird flu has taken a serious turn, as the deadly H5N1 virus—once largely restricted to poultry—has begun infecting a wide range of non-avian species, including ...

Scientists have raised fears, however, that if a person becomes infected with both bird flu and seasonal flu, the H5N1 virus could mutate into a strain that can be transferred from human to human ...

Since its first description in 1959 in Scottish poultry farms, the A(H5N1) virus was subsequently identified in 1996 in intensively reared ducks and chickens from China, with the first human infection ...

MEXICO CITY - A three-year-old girl has become Mexico’s first human fatality from H5N1 bird flu, dying early on April 8 of multiple organ failure, health officials said. The girl from the ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

Type A H5N1 influenza has been spreading through animals and some ... It was not known how the girl contracted the virus.

Birds from the flock will not enter the food system. The H5N1 HPAI virus continues to circulate in both wild and domestic birds in North America since December 2021. H5N1 HPAI viruses are highly ...

To slow the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza — such as the prevalent H5N1 strain — real-time reporting of current genome data is crucial. Yet “extensive delays” of 7.5 months or ...

The child had also tested positive for the H5N1 virus, which causes avian influenza. This is the second human death in the country due to H5N1 virus, which causes bird flu, and the first in Andhra ...

H5N1 is a subtype of influenza virus that infects birds and mammals, including humans in rare instances, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). "The human cases detected thus far are ...

Researchers had been studying the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for decades without seeing evidence of an active virus ...