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 ...

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

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

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

Five years after Covid-19 reached New Zealand shores, we are bracing for the arrival of another deadly virus: a strain of bird flu called H5N1. Follow Our Changing World on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio ...

A French team of researchers reported H5N1 in late 2024, describing "unprecedented and alarming mortalities of southern elephant seals", noting King penguins, Gentoo penguins, brown skuas were ...

The current strain of the H5N1 virus, which is subtype 2.3.4.4b, has so far caused mild symptoms in the known human cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, such as ...

Although those vaccine materials were designed using versions of H5N1 flu from the early 2000s, a recent study suggests that they create an antibody response to the newer 2.3.4.4b versions that ...

When sea mammals such as seals and sea lions ate sick or dead wild birds, they too became infected. On land, foxes and raccoon dogs caught the virus. By the end of 2022 H5N1 was also found in ...

In the UK, cases have been confirmed in foxes, otters, seals and now sheep – some of these mammals are known to scavenge dead or dying birds, according to UKHSA.