Some London-area butchers say the availability of holiday turkeys is unchanged, despite an ongoing avian influenza outbreak ...

Alveo Technologies, a leader in molecular sensing and diagnostics with its proprietary molecular detection technology, today ...

Avian influenza mainly affects birds, but in November, an older adult in Washington with backyard poultry became the first ...

FOR years, scientists have warned that bird flu could one day spill over from birds to humans, triggering a global health ...

Scientists have warned H5N1 bird flu could make a dangerous leap to humans, triggering a global health crisis.

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

Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention ...

If we avert our eyes from the bird flu threat because our systems have grown inattentive, underfunded and unprepared, we risk ...

A 3km (1.8 mile) protection zone has been put in place around a poultry farm near Gloucester after a positive bird flu test ...

Officials say Dorset remains free of reported cases in kept or commercial poultry so far and is reminding those who keep birds to follow biosecurity guidelines to minimise any spread. The public are ...

Westmorland and Furness Council issued the warning on social media, urging people to report sightings through official channels rather than handling birds themselves. Data covering weeks 45 to 48 of ...

New research reveals why bird flu poses such an unusual danger to humans: it can keep multiplying even at temperatures that normally shut viruses down.