Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next pandemic.

roughly around the same time a commercial duck farm in Georgia detected the state’s first confirmed H5N1 infection. Early this year, two commercial chicken flocks had positive bird flu cases.

The Georgia Department of Agriculture's Emergency ... and testing of a pre-pandemic mRNA-based vaccine against the H5N1 avian influenza. The award will also support the expansion of clinical ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - According to the CDC, H5N1 or Bird Flu, is a virus that originates from wild birds. Both poultry and cows can contract this virus. Through consumption of dairy products and ...

Avian influenza – which has devastated poultry flocks, wildlife populations and increasingly poses a public health risk – has now been confirmed in wild bobcats in New York state.

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able to bind to human receptors.

China issued a blanket ban on nearly all American raw poultry imports in late 2023 in response to early bird flu outbreaks, roughly around the same time a commercial duck farm in Georgia detected the ...

A sign stands at an entrance to the main campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, Friday ... to influenza surveillance given the threat posed by H5N1 avian ...

Results show positive results for HPAI H5N1 in albatrosses, elephant seals, fur seals, brown skuas, kelp gulls and Antarctic terns. BAS operates two research stations on South Georgia: King Edward ...

Towards the end of 2023 H5N1 was found on the subantarctic islands of South Georgia, South Sandwich and also the Falklands after jumping from South America where more than 100,000 wild birds were ...