A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Initial signs included increased duck mortality, prompting state officials to quarantine the farm and cull nearly 119,000 birds. The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) confirmed the H5N9 ...

A human case of bird flu has been confirmed in England. The UK Health Security Agency said the person in the West Midlands region caught avian influenza on a farm where “they had close and ...

Researchers at CNIO have discovered that blocking the mitochondrial protein MCJ in brown fat increases heat production and leads to weight loss in obese mice, offering protection against ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the individual in the West Midlands region "had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds", but would not say where the farm was.

Ten months on from the shocking discovery that a virus usually carried by wild birds can readily infect cows, at least 68 people in North America have become ill from the pathogen and one person ...

The US must strengthen measures to control the country’s bird flu outbreak and curb the growing risk that the virus will evolve to spread more easily between humans, international health experts ...

A bird flu prevention zone enforcing strict hygiene standards around domesticated birds has been declared for the whole of England. A rising number of cases and risk avian influenza poses to wild ...

Five-year old budding artist Freya Majury has fallen in love with the birds in her Ballygowan back garden. Along with her mother Sarah and brother Rory, she will be taking part in the Royal ...