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

H5N1 bird flu can cause severe illness in humans. Experts warn it spreads from animals, not people, but can turn deadly if ...

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.

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

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

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it ...

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

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 ...

A Victorian poultry farmer details the emotional toll of an avian influenza outbreak on his properties. The business is ...