The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

A decade-old bird flu strain, H5N9, has surfaced in US poultry for the first time, detected in a California duck farm.

Smithfield Foods' CEO Shane Smith says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more ...

A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and ...

A US government memo ordering a halt to communication with global health bodies has concerned scientists as a strain of bird ...

However, the researchers also found that countries where poultry are vaccinated against H5 bird flu—specifically China—saw a faster rate of viral evolution compared to those where poultry is ...

In a letter to environment secretary Steve Reed, the cross-party group of 42 MPs and peers call for government backing for a ...

In 2024, there were 81 cases of avian flu (H5N1) in humans, the highest number since 2015. The virus is concerning due to its ...

A month ago, almost no one in the U.S. had heard of the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek. Today, its ...

The finding at a California duck farm is raising alarms among public health experts that bird flu could further mutate into ...

Avian influenza, commonly termed “bird flu”, is caused by the avian influenza virus A. This virus is usually found in wild ...

Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the ...