H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

Influenza viruses are shifty entities. A seemingly ingenious and sneaky way for viruses to make these leaps is by swapping ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

A licence for Scotland's last surviving guga hunt has been granted for the first time since 2021. For centuries, thousands of ...

In just 3 years, the Influenza Vaccines Research and Development (R&D) Roadmap Initiative has demonstrated important ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

After an outbreak at a B.C. farm, Canada’s food inspection agency said nearly 400 surviving ostriches would be killed ...

Cambodia's Ministry of Health recently confirmed the country's twelfth human case of H5N1 avian influenza so far this year.

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

From the outset of the Trump administration, bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has flown rather conspicuously — and in fact ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.