Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

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 ...

An international team has now developed the first map of gene regulation in chickens, potentially opening the way to find new ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther all died after being ...

Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but the recent appearance in mammals of the potentially dangerous avian influenza A strain, H5N1 — the bird flu virus — demands redoubling ...