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WHO confirms human case of bird flu in India! H9N2 virus detected in a four-year child in West Bengal
The World Health Organisation has confirmed the human case of bird flu in India, after the H9N2 vir…
ANI
Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general says it feels like 2020 again.
H5N1 avian flu virus is spreading in cattle herds. Former surgeon general Jerome Adams, who served …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Bird flu has led to the deaths of more than 50 million farm birds and sickened dozens of mammals. 3 charts show whether humans should be worried.
A nasty version of bird flu has been killing chickens, turkeys, wild birds, and even some mammals a…
Hilary Brueck
More People Have Died From China's New Bird Flu
While the number of infected and dead keep rising, there aren't signs yet that the virus has mutate…
Jennifer Welsh
Bill Gates says a devastating 'quirk of nature' could kill 30 million people in a year. Researchers are fighting that threat by studying bird butts.
On the beach, the goal is to take a close look at these birds' butts and poop in the hopes of gathe…
Hilary Brueck
Bird flu was detected in a pig, and it could be a tipping point threatening more human transmission
Pigs are mixing bowls for bird flu and human flu viruses, increasing the risk of mutations that hel…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
China Reports Third New Bird Flu Strain To Jump To Humans This Year
This could be because the Chinese government has increased surveillance for avian flu infections af…
Jennifer Welsh
Bird flu virus is heat-labile, gets killed at 'cooking temperature'
Contrary to what some people think that the bird flu virus, also known as Avian influenza, is sprea…
The world is taking precautions to prevent another bird flu epidemic - here's what you need to know
Transmission to humans is rare, but it can happen. People who catch it usually have had direct cont…
Lindsay Dodgson
A Brand New Hybrid Bird Flu In China Has Scientists Worried
An increase in new bird flu viruses being detected in humans could be a result of the Chinese gover…
Jennifer Welsh
Japan killed 17 million chickens amid an outbreak of bird flu. Now it's running out of space to bury them.
Birds are culled to prevent the risk of the virus infecting other animals and humans, which in turn…
Huileng Tan
WHO Says The New Bird Flu Is One Of The Most Lethal Viruses They've Seen
Another worrying sign of the virus' spread: It seems to have popped up in an animal in Vietnam. The…
Jennifer Welsh
A bird flu outbreak is killing bald eagles and driving up egg prices
Experts are worried about an outbreak of H5N1, a highly contagious flu strain that's dangerous to b…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
Experts are warning the owner of a TikTok-famous emu against kissing and cuddling the bird after she said he had avian flu, calling it 'extremely dangerous'
The owner of the TikTok famous Emmanuel the Emu, Taylor Blake, recently revealed that he had Avian …
Michele Theil
China Battles Bird Flu With Spray And Mass Slaughters [PHOTOS]
Laurie Garrett, senior editor for the Council on Foreign Relations, pointed out on Twitter that eve…
Dina Spector
Taiwanese Woman Sickened By Bird Flu Virus Never Before Seen In Humans
While one Taiwanese woman getting sick doesn't seem like something to worry about, we never know wh…
Jennifer Welsh
A 'highly pathogenic strain' of H5N1 bird flu has been reported in China's Hunan province
"The designation of low or highly pathogenic avian influenza refers to the potential for these viru…
Connor Perrett,Connor Perrett
New Chinese Bird Flu Never Infected Humans Until Now
One of the men who died has two sons who suffered from acute pneumonia, one of whom died, the Assoc…
Adam Taylor
Amidst the coronavirus outbreak, China is now also fighting deadly bird flu
However, the outbreak is a cause for concern because the contagion is often fatal, with a 60% morta…
Paulina Cachero
A Hospital Employee Broke The H7N9 Bird Flu News Over China's Twitter
And on March 6, someone posted on Weibo, "Ask the hospital to tell the truth." The anonymous postin…