HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

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

Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been around since the 1990s, but this current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, ...

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

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

A Victorian poultry farmer details the emotional toll of an avian influenza outbreak on his properties. The business is ...

In October 2024, hundreds of king penguins and elephant seal pups were found dead from H5N1 in the subantarctic Crozet and Kerguelen islands. These very remote islands lie halfway between South ...

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 ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

Epidemiological data of an influenza A/H5N1 outbreak in elephant seals in Argentina indicates mammal-to-mammal transmission. Nature Communications, 15 (1). doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-53766-5 ...

Harp seals are an ice-obligate species; they require a stable sea platform of ice for pups to survive. Born on the ice in late February and early March, the pups nurse for 12 to 15 days before ...