Vietnam has reported its first human case of H5N1 avian flu in 2025, involving an 8-year-old girl who is currently hospitalized with severe symptoms, including encephalitis. This case highlights the ...

Liberia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for ...

A nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza achieved 100% protection in preclinical trials, offering hope ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...

Health officials in Vietnam have reported a severe H5N1 avian flu infection in an 8-year-old girl who is experiencing ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Lead researcher and CEO of POP Biotechnologies, Dr. Jonathan Lovell, is based at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Lovell said ...

Bird flu has long been a concern for scientists, but recent developments have raised alarms about its potential to cause a global pandemic. The discovery in 2024 that the H5N1 virus had jumped from ...

H5N1 bird flu has infected over 1,009 cattle across 17 U.S. states, affected poultry in New York and New Mexico, and caused one human death in Louisiana.

Although the rate of increase appears to be falling, new outbreaks of avian influenza in commercial poultry have been ...

The Tyee: So is public health dead? Daniella Barreto: Public health needs an overhaul. It hasn’t been working for many people ...

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