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.

Although the avian flu (H5N1) virus may not be making the news as frequently, it is still working hard behind the scenes, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ended its emergency response to the H5N1 avian flu. A spokesperson ...

Swine farmers in Thailand have cautioned the national government against opening the pork market as a trade concession to ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday it has ended its emergency response for H5N1 bird flu, ...

More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said 216 pediatric deaths already ...

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

The poultry sector has developed strong systems around animal movements. Chicks are sourced from high-health hatcheries, and ...

More than £1billion has been poured into developing the site at Weybridge in Surrey in order to protect the UK from serious threats posed by animal diseases to farming, food and public health ...

The spread of African Swine Fever and Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) in Sri Lanka has been brought ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its emergency response for bird flu as the outbreak that sickened ...