As of September, 2024, there are at least 20 H5 influenza vaccines licensed by regulatory bodies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe (table). Most of these vaccines use inactivated influenza ...

Australia will head to the polls for a federal election on 3 May, in what is predicted to be a tight race. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, whose Labor Party will be defending a small majority ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected in a sheep in the UK. It is the first time in the world the variant has been found in a sheep, although cases have previously been recorded in dairy ...

In a nutshell, food poisoning and norovirus both cause severe gastrointestinal symptoms, but norovirus (like most communicable viral diseases) typically leads to flu-like symptoms. On the other hand, ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the US. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...

Bird flu continues to spread in the U.S., infecting thousands of wild birds and poultry while posing an increasing threat to humans. Since the outbreak among U.S. livestock was first detected in ...

A British woman living in Australia has shared the 'odd' differences she's noticed since relocating Down Under. Sydney Graves, a midwife from the UK, emigrated from Newcastle to Melbourne in ...

Avian influenza is “evolving in ways we haven’t seen before,” says Martha Nelson, a computational biologist and staff scientist researching pathogen evolution at the National Institutes of ...

(Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images) Bird flu is at a dangerous point in the United States: Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1 strain since 2022, and 70 people have been ...

Top U.S. health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently mused about a novel way to contain bird flu, which is to let it “run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the ...

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have been cut from the federal agency in charge of pandemic response Kevin Dietsch/Getty; iStockphoto/Getty Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the U.S. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...