It’s crucial that we monitor bird flu strains to help us prepare for potential outbreaks," said virologist Matt Turnbull.

H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different ...

Kate Postance told the BBC her 500 free-range turkeys and 300 chickens at her farm in Ceredigion were now in "flockdown" to ...

The United States has reported its first human death caused by the H5N5 bird flu strain. Learn what this development means ...

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 ...

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

Fever slows seasonal flu by blocking viral replication, but bird-flu strains resist heat. New research reveals why—and what ...

Bird flu viruses can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever as one of the body's ways of stopping viruses in ...

They were admitted to hospital, and on November 14, officials confirmed that tests showed infection with an H5N5 avian ...

A study uncovers the viral gene that lets bird flu beat fever, reshaping surveillance strategies as H5N1 continues to spread.

An unusually early outbreak of bird flu cases affecting high numbers of wild birds and poultry farms across Europe and North ...

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