WSIL -- Wildlife biologists in Illinois and Missouri are encouraging the public, including hunters, to keep close watch for dead waterfowl as potential avian influenza outbreaks effect wild ducks and ...

Bird flu resists fever’s heat; a viral gene enables replication at high temperatures, bypassing immune defences.

A new study has discovered that the H5N1 avian influenza virus has reached wild pig (wild boar) populations in Alberta.

For the past two years, scientists, public-health officials and even a high-ranking government official or two have warned about the potential danger of a deadly worldwide outbreak, or pandemic, of ...

Australian and Dutch researchers have uncovered a remarkable evolutionary adaptation in birds that could hold vital clues for combating avian flu and respiratory infections in humans, including ...

In a recent study published in the CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, researchers characterized the pathophysiology of infection by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A (H5N1) viral ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - The fear that the H5N1 avian flu could kill millions of people is based on the simple fact that very few people have ever had an influenza virus like this one — a situation immunologists ...

The post-mortem report said: “There were bruises on the breast muscle (of the birds) and (their) lungs were congested.” Post-mortem of two bird carcasses by a Bikaner-based research organisation has ...