H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes ...

Several local factors - including the minimum temperature reached in autumn, the water level in lakes and ponds in winter, ...

Avian influenza has been killing many seals and sea lions in other parts of the world, particularly in South America, but so far that same spread has not yet occurred in the Pacific Northwest.

More tests were carried out by staff from the "avian influenza national reference laboratory" after two grey seals tested positive Blakeney Point in February.

Scientists conducted a genetic analysis and found that avian flu H5N1 evolved and spread efficiently between marine mammals during a recent viral outbreak, revealing a risk to other species.

The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd populations, a new report finds.

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

Great Britain is the only country in the region to have recorded new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in domestic birds. Confirmed on June 11 was the first of four outbreaks in this ...

Avian influenza has been killing many seals and sea lions in other parts of the world, particularly in South America, but so far that same spread has not yet occurred in the Pacific Northwest.