A decade-old bird flu strain, H5N9, has surfaced in US poultry for the first time, detected in a California duck farm.

In a letter to environment secretary Steve Reed, the cross-party group of 42 MPs and peers call for government backing for a ...

Smithfield Foods' CEO Shane Smith says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more ...

A US government memo ordering a halt to communication with global health bodies has concerned scientists as a strain of bird ...

In 2024, there were 81 cases of avian flu (H5N1) in humans, the highest number since 2015. The virus is concerning due to its ...

However, the researchers also found that countries where poultry are vaccinated against H5 bird flu—specifically China—saw a faster rate of viral evolution compared to those where poultry is ...

A month ago, almost no one in the U.S. had heard of the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek. Today, its ...

Avian influenza, commonly termed “bird flu”, is caused by the avian influenza virus A. This virus is usually found in wild ...

The case fatality rate is approximately 52%, per the CDC. The countries reporting the highest number of human bird flu deaths ...

An outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the U.S. state of Georgia, the nation's biggest chicken producer, is set to trigger ...