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

New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

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

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.

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

US President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), right, during a Make ...

A deep-prevention approach – human, animal and environmental – is needed to respond to challenges that require concerted ...

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

Instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should just let it spread through flocks!

Just five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic, another animal-borne disease is mutating and spreading across borders and species.

Canadians saw first-hand during COVID-19 why it is critically important that we are prepared for whatever comes next.

At first, the monovalent influenza A (H5N8) vaccine will be tested in two doses, 21 days apart, in adults aged 18–59.