We asked public health and industry experts to break down the risks that bird flu presents to our food supply.

A deadly strain of the virus killed a patient in the US and left a teenager critically ill. The outbreak has raised concerns ...

Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a viral infection that can cause flu in birds and sometimes spread to mammals, including humans. Migrating waterfowl (wild ducks, geese, and storks ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says seven poultry farms in southwestern Ontario have been placed under quarantine due to an avian flu outbreak.

Dec. 19, 2024 — Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them, scientists have ... Flu Virus Remains Infectious in Refrigerated ...

First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...

A letter sent to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine signed by Canadian health officials says the B.C. teenager ...

Over 200 snow geese found across Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania are suspected to have been killed by the bird flu, and experts are concerned the death toll could climb even higher as cases continue ...

As cases of H5N1 bird flu rise across the U.S., some of us may be more immune to the virus than others. Many people may have immune cells called "T cells" primed and ready to fight the "highly ...

The World Health Organisation has recorded more than 460 deaths of bird flu since 2003, but the Louisiana person was the ...

The deadly bird flu variant H5N1 first emerged in China in 1996, but over the last four years it has spread more widely than ever before, reaching previously untouched regions such as penguin-haven ...