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Gambia’s rapid response to the latest outbreak of bird flu is protecting Europe against infections, too. An international team of experts provided the country with support. © GIZ/Lisa von Stebut There is currently a lively debate taking place about …

With at least 280 million birds dead since October 2021, the highly infectious H5N1 strain of avian flu has devastated poultry and caused the biggest sudden drop of the world’s wild bird population in decades. The millions of wild birds killed includes …

The world is currently seeing the fastest-spreading, largest-ever outbreak of H5N1, a highly contagious, deadly strain of avian influenza. Scientists say this virus now presents an existential threat to the world’s biodiversity, with the risk to humans …

Although a third U.S. dairy worker has been confirmed to be infected with the H5N1 bird flu, many dairy farms are still unwilling to use even freely offered personal protective equipment (PPE). This is cause for alarm. Working with a pathogen assigned a …

The H5N1 bird flu, highly infectious and deadly in birds, has been around for nearly three decades, but recently, it has been changing in ways that raise alarms for many scientists and public health officials. In particular, the recent spread of the virus …

Twenty-seven years ago today, a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong developed a sore throat, spiked a fever, and started to cough. Six days later, he was hospitalized; six days after that, he died of acute respiratory distress caused by viral pneumonia. Testing …

In the last 30 days, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that 11 commercial flocks have been infected and 8 backyard flocks, with total birds infected 8.8 million. A good number of the infections have happened in the state of Michigan. On 2 May …

The West African country has put emergency measures in place to deal with the outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu. An international team of experts provided support, including preventive action. © GIZ/Lisa von Stebut When a number of dead birds …

Health H5N1, one of the many viruses that cause bird flu, had already killed at least 24,000 South American sea lions along the continent’s coasts in less than a year. Now it had come for elephant seals. Young chickens at a farm in Pescadero, Calif., on …