People are asking if the Nipah virus is real, after words spread about the zoonotic virus that has an estimated 40-70 percent ...

While bird flu has been around for decades, the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen spread from a wild bird to a cow came as a surprise to virus watchers, according to news officials.In ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

Somewhere on a remote island in the Pacific, a chicken falls ill. Local farmers notice the signs – lethargy, strange swelling ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

Flu infections can cause deadly complications and can worsen existing medical conditions, ... A handful of subtypes of avian influenza A viruses are known to occasionally infect humans: H5, H6, ...

In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...

More than £1billion has been poured into developing the site at Weybridge in Surrey in order to protect the UK from serious ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...

Two cases of bird flu have been confirmed in Wales in two different locations. It is the first time a case has been found in ...