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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
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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
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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
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A leading bird flu expert says this 'nasty' outbreak is here to stay: 'There's something different about this virus'
Bird flu expert Richard Webby says the H5N1 virus killing poultry at an alarming rate 'is most defi…
Hilary Brueck
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Bird flu particles were found in pasteurized milk. A former surgeon general says he isn't changing what he eats.
Store-bought milk may contain genetic fragments of H5N1 bird flu virus, but a former surgeon genera…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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…
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Shanghai Authorities Kill More Than 20,000 Birds
A total of 20,536 chickens, ducks, geese, and pigeons from a live poultry trading zone in Shanghai …
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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
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This Map Shows The Spread Of A Deadly New Bird Flu Strain Terrifying Everyone In China
H7N9 is almost certainly under-reported — the symptoms described by the World Health Organization (…
Adam Taylor
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Lessons From SARS: How The New Bird Flu Could Hit The Chinese Economy
Industrial production – In Jan-Feb industrial production stood at 17.5 percent. Many Chinese econom…
Mamta Badkar
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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
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Scientists warn of bird flu pandemic that could be '100 times worse' than COVID after rare human case found in US
The H5N1 avian flu has spread rapidly since a new strain was detected in 2020 affecting wild birds …
ANI
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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
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China's Bird Flu Problem Is Getting Worse
The virus took its first victims in early March. This is the first time that the H7N9 flu strain ha…
Jennifer Welsh
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The Frightening Story Of A Man Who Bought A Chicken And Then Died Of Bird Flu
Chickens are pictured on the floor of a food market in downtown Shanghai, April 5, 2013. Chinese au…