Great Britain is the only country in the region to have recorded new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in ...

The University of Minnesota is stepping up efforts to identify biological threats that could trigger an epidemic, launching ...

A tiny insect called a midge spreads the disease, and the earliest known case dates back to 1955 in a forest worker near a ...

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

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

Universal Ostrich Farm has been fighting a Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) order ever since an avian flu outbreak last ...

Oropouche virus poses a growing public health risk, with recent outbreaks in Brazil and Cuba. The WHO report calls for urgent ...

This genetic mixing, or reassortment of different influenza viruses, occurs when they co-infect one host: a bird, an animal or, worse, a human. That opens up the window for genetic information to ...