Australian Antarctic Program scientists say virus on Heard Island has spread to new species ...

Chennai authorities issue avian influenza advisory after H5N1 detection in crows, emphasizing rare human transmission and ...

For the first time, deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed as the cause of a wildlife die-off in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas during the 2023–2024 summers. Researchers on an Antarctic ...

More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, marking the first documented die-off of wildlife from the virus on the ...

As bird flu continues to circulate in animals and spill over into humans, researchers are racing to stop it before it adapts ...

Chennai: Bird flu has been reported in Chennai after hundreds of crows were found dead across Tamil Nadu’s capital city.

Chennai is grappling with a confirmed H5N1 avian influenza outbreak following mysterious crow deaths. The highly pathogenic virus, with zoonotic potential, has prompted the Union Ministry to urge ...

Are seasonal flu antibodies also effective against avian flu? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has shown that a ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. But last year ...

This article originally published at Avian flu suspected for causing bird deaths in Orange County, preliminary tests show.

Since it was first detected in the U.S. in 2014, H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has jumped from wild birds to farm animals and then to people, causing more than 70 human cases in ...