If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

Great Britain is the only country in the region to have recorded new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

The effort to monitor and protect the population is ongoing. Experts stunned as animal colony on remote island rebounds from ...

In the past three weeks, there have been a number of reports of groups of dead wild sea birds washing up on shorelines in counties Kerry, Clare and Galway ...

A single mutation in the H5N1 strain of avian influenza that is infecting cattle in the US could make it more likely to infect humans, according to a new scientific paper. The worrying finding has ...

The current H5N1 outbreak began in 2022 and intensified throughout the Biden administration. By early 2025, the virus had affected over 130 million birds, including both wild and domestic populations.

Three ducks at the Queens Zoo and 12 birds at the Bronx Zoo have died of bird flu, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. (AP Photo) ...