The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has issued a bird flu warning after 19 birds were found to have died from the disease, and the H5N1 variant has been found on both sides of the Irish border ...

Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts to prevent and detect bird flu infections among farmworkers, ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

"This is how pandemics start." This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at ...

This isn’t just an animal health crisis — it’s a risk to public health. When animals consume foods containing live virus, ...

The Trump Administration's zeal for rounding up and deporting those migrants is making efforts to combat bird flu harder as those workers now avoid outsiders.

"What we're hoping is that we can take a bite out of that next pandemic, which you know is gonna come, whether it's bird flu or whether it's something we don't know yet, it will come," Brenner said.

Bird flu is already considered a pandemic among animals. It has infected hundreds of bird species and small mammals. Now, ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — Scientists have pioneered an influenza virus vector-based nasal spray vaccine platform and developed a nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine. During the early COVID-19 pandemic ...

If the virus changes in a way that allows human-to-human transmission, it could spark a new pandemic. Ireland's health officials explained: "It is very unusual for people to catch bird flu but it ...

Bird flu would be much less of a threat if we spread chickens out across the country instead of concentrating them together ...