H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...

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

Meanwhile, Switzerland’s agencies warned that authorities should move quickly to stamp out infections because “the more the bird flu virus is able to circulate freely, the greater the likelihood that ...

In her experiments, ferrets earlier exposed to the 2009 H1N1 swine flu were protected from the worst symptoms and death when later exposed to H5N1 from Texas cattle. Ferrets that were just given H5N1 ...

with some UK hospitals overwhelmed by the winter peak and the US recording the largest influenza season since the 2009 swine flu pandemic. Dr Wright said the early spike in Australian cases was an ...

but there is a growing risk that bird flu could mutate to become more contagious in humans, raising the risk of a bird flu pandemic. Sepsis: A life-threatening medical emergency caused by the body ...