Japan's Health Ministry has decided to change its stockpile of flu vaccines in order to be able to deal with the H5N1 bird flu virus, which ha
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Here’s a look at avian flu. Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds.
BirdLife Africa is very concerned about the avian flu that is decimating thousands of birds along the coast of Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.
These viruses infect birds but rarely spread to humans. One virus that causes bird flu is called H5N1.
Brazil – the world’s biggest chicken meat exporter with US$9.7bn in sales in 2022 – has so far confirmed eight cases of the H5N1 in wild birds, inc
Brazil has declared an animal health emergency for six months after authorities detected its first-ever case of avian influenza virus in wild birds
Following is a summary of current health news briefs.
Brazil investigates four more suspect cases of avian flu in wild birds Brazil is investigating another four new potential cases of highly pathogeni
"While many people think that the H5N1 avian influenza virus only poses a risk to birds, that isn’t true," Miller explained.
Brazil is investigating a suspected case of avian influenza A (H5N1) in a person living in the southeastern state of Espirito Santo, where this wee
Bird flu, or H5N1, has scientists and conservationists rattled.
Thus, a type A virus isolated in 1995 in Memphis Tennessee with a strain number of 123 and an H5N1 subtype is designated: Influenza virus was first
Efforts to date have resulted in the licensure/registration of several H5N1 vaccines.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said yesterday that bird flu has been detected in two poultry workers in England
California condors will receive a vaccine for a deadly strain of avian influenza that threatens to wipe out the already critically endangered vultu
At least seven deceased California condors from a northern Arizona population were infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza this spring, the
There is currently no record of the virus transmitting between humans
In the latest highly pathogenic avian flu developments, Brazil reported the H5N1 strain for the first time in wild birds, and US officials today an
In a recent study published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, researchers investigated the genetic origin, distribution patterns, and an
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has entered Brazil for the first time but, so far, remains restricted to seabirds.
Favaro said on Twitter that two birds with the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) of subtype H5N1 were identified on the coast of the southea
The H5N1 avian flu is found on a turkey farm in England. Start your day with TPM.
Purpose: A review of the avian influenza A/H5N1 virus, including human cases, viral transmission, clinical features, vaccines and antivirals, surve
The cause of death has now been confirmed as H5N1 bird flu by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
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The 2009 influenza pandemic A(H1N1)pdm09 of swine origin and the continued circulation of highly pathogenic avian H5N1 strain in humans are stark r
Around the world, a highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza is killing wild birds in numbers never seen before.
Since 2003, the H5N1 avian flu has killed 455 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
The H5N1 avian influenza is notorious for a near 100-percent mortality rate in birds.
Since the first case of the 2022/2023 highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak was detected in the U.S. – in a turkey flock – on Feb.
India is not new to avian flu. We have been detecting outbreaks since 2006.
Australia's birds have so far dodged this bullet. Our isolation has kept us safe for now. Antarctica's birds have stayed safe too.
Study: Risk for Infection in Humans after Exposure to Birds Infected with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus, United States, 2022.
A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has killed thousands of wild birds and is now infecting seals and other marine mammals.
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From September onwards, migratory birds will arrive on Australian shores.
In the last 3 weeks of April, the pace of highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks declined slightly, but, with the first detection in Gambia, the vir
Personnel from the National Agrarian Health Service (SENASA) spray disinfectant after burying pelicans that had possibly been infected with H5N1 av
Housing among the largest livestock reserves across the world, India is at “risk and vulnerable”, to the on-going worst-ever outbreaks of highly pa
A 3km ‘protection zone’ has been set up to control an outbreak of ‘highly pathogenic’ bird flu in South Yorkshire.
This year, the world has been witnessing one of the worst-ever documented outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 killing millions o
Peruvian health authorities have launched a health alert for 180 days after three cases of the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza were detected
A spokesperson for Animal and Plant Health Agency wrote on social media: "Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been confirmed at a premi
According to The American Journal of Infection Control, H5N1 is not a blood-borne pathogen.
There is a serious threat of a bird flu outbreak in Brazil, and it could have a devastating impact on South African supply chains.
The new study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, studied virus samples taken from infected birds and mammals.
The bird flu virus that is killing millions of animals around the world has been found to “efficiently” spread between ferrets in a laboratory, rai
The bird flu outbreak is the deadliest one in almost 10 years—which has helped cause egg prices to steeply rise—and while infection in humans is ra
Company to leverage platform technology approved by the USDA for influenza vaccines in swine and cattle to create new solutions if vaccine use for
The new H5N1 strain has already killed over 58 million chickens, turkeys, and other birds, Reuters reported.