To date, human infections have been rare and are typically linked to direct contact with animals. Sustained human-to-human transmission has not occurred, and health officials say the overall pandemic ...

European health authorities issue warnings over unprecedented bird flu outbreaks, urging early detection, preparedness and ...

On November 13, Spain's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food imposed the confinement of all free-range poultry farms to curb the spread of avian influenza—more commonly known as "bird ...

"A bird flu pandemic would probably be quite severe, potentially even more severe than the pandemic we experienced." ...

Osofsky is a wildlife veterinarian and the Jay Hyman professor of wildlife health and health policy at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The Trump administration recently canceled ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year ...

The death from bird flu of a person in Washington is a reminder that avian flu is circulating widely during flu season, ...

H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different ...

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) on Thursday revealed preclinical data from the H5N1 avian pandemic influenza vaccine candidate. Leveraging Novavax’s recombinant, protein-based nanoparticle technology and ...

Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering ...

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