So far, no people in Hawaii have gotten the illness. “There were 59 people exposed to the bird flu in our November 2024 ...

The bird flu hit Susie’s Duck Sanctuary in Wahiawa hard, and hundreds of ducks, geese, and other birds had to be euthanized ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus.

Eagles are sacred for many Native Americans, who can obtain dead birds for religious use through the federal government. Bird ...

The fatality rate for H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans has historically been high, with more than half of people dying. Why, then, is the current H5N1 bird flu outbreak—which has ...

"They're lying to you about these illnesses. Birds can get sick but they haven't got flu and it's not contagious," Dr Yeadon says. When contacted by AAP FactCheck, Dr Yeadon expanded on his view, ...

Songbirds are much less likely than waterfowl to contract variants of avian influenza and less likely to shed large amounts of virus, meaning they do not transmit the disease easily. (For detailed ...

In other developments, a Chinese research team that studied experimental infections involving different inoculation routes ...

Florida officials warn about Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria found in warm water that has caused four deaths this ...

In a monthly zoonotic flu update, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Bangladesh and India have reported new H5N1 avian ...