The Asian bird flu is turning up in Europe. Mute swans killed by the H5N1 virus have been found in Greece, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Germany.

Lethal Bird Flu Reemerges In Four East Asian ... Indonesia, Sept. 14 -- The avian influenza virus that swept across East Asia early this year has reemerged in at least four countries in ...

With chickens packed into farmyards alongside other livestock in Southeast Asia, international health experts warn that conditions are set for a bird flu pandemic that could kill millions worldwide.

Bird flu outbreaks have hit parts of Europe and Asia in recent days and weeks, ... , around 60 percent of people who have been infected with a type of bird flu called Asian H5N1 have died.

Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a viral infection that can cause flu in birds and sometimes spread to mammals, including humans. Migrating waterfowl (wild ducks, geese, and storks) are ...

A highly pathogenic form of the avian flu has been detected in 29 states. ... The virus, Eurasian H5N1, is closely related to an Asian strain that has infected hundreds of people since 2003, ...

Across China, which has reported 17 outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus since mid-October, sales of chicken and duck are plummetting and chick prices have dropped up to 90 percent.

Unprecedented bird flu. Avian flu is rampant this year not only in Israel but also in 40 other European, African and Asian countries, as infected birds carry the virus across the migration route. The ...

The detection of avian influenza on two farms in British Columbia has spurred several Asian markets to restrict imports of Canadian poultry, a Canadian government spokesman said on Wednesday.

Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways H5N1 has infected cattle across the US and jumped from a mammal to a human for the first time. Experts fear it may someday evolve to spread among humans.

Several governments in Asia have ordered tougher screening of air travelers from China in an effort to contain a possible spread of a new strain of bird flu that has killed 23 people in the ...