New research reveals that the bird flu viruses may be capable of replicating at temperatures higher than an average fever, a ...

In A Nutshell In mouse experiments, raising body temperature by about 2°C turned severe flu infections into mild ones Bird-flu viruses keep working at higher temperatures, so fever doesn’t slow them ...

In the first half of 2025, two HPAI outbreaks linked to the H5N1 virus were recorded in Egypt. According to a six-monthly ...

While it remains seasonal in poultry, the disease is spreading in dairy cows and infecting hundreds of other ...

The European Commission will ultimately decide on whether marketing authorizations under exceptional circumstances for ...

Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, ...

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...

Avian diseases such as avian influenza, Marek’s disease and Newcastle disease cause serious economic losses each year and can ...

Wintering birds, including the celebrated snow geese, return to California winter. The down side is migrating birds can help spread H5N1 bird flu and other diseases among other bird species, animals ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert Friday to inform clinicians, state health departments and the public of a case of avian influenza — aka bird flu — in a ...

Avian flu outbreaks have been blamed for soaring egg prices thanks to an ongoing epidemic that has killed upwards of 150 million birds and wreaked havoc on the American poultry industry. However, the ...

Dairy cows infected with bird flu in five U.S. states have died or been slaughtered by farmers because they did not recover. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says the vast majority of cows ...