Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Animal health experts are expected to begin inspecting a number of poultry farms today after three wild swans tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Restrictions on the movement ...

Emphasis on biosecurity, rapid response and vaccine research are areas continuing to receive government funding and focus in ...

Avian flu spreads rapidly among domesticated birds with weaker immunity and can mutate to become especially deadly. If these ...

Knowing where, when and for how long mallard ducks – natural carriers of avian influenza – stop and rest as they migrate can ...

In a report to the Natural Resources Board, DNR officials said there has been an uptick in reports of bird deaths since ...

Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year ...

County Durham Swans found dead in a park tested positive for bird flu, a council said. A total of eight dead birds have been discovered at Riverside Park in Chester-le-Street since early March and ...

Swans have been found washed up dead up on the banks of a popular pub as a bird flu outbreak continues. The dead birds were discovered at the Commodore Pub in Oulton Broad, Lowestoft last month.

Britons have been urged to be vigilant against bird flu after the deadly H5N1 strain killed three mute swans in Dorset. Urgent tests are under way to check the other birds and ducks at Abbotsbury ...