Antibodies taken from alpacas are to be used in a new pandemic flu drug, in a £33 million project led by AstraZenica.

The infection was detected in a single sheep in Yorkshire on Monday and, while bird flu does not spread easily to people, the ...

Richard Peabody, director of epidemic and emerging infections at the UK Health Security Agency, has warned that bird flu has ...

The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War was coming to ...

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human ...

Richard Pebody said while the virus is ‘not new’ and the risk to the public remains low, its features have changed in recent ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to become a pandemic”, according to a director at the UK Health Security ...

Health officials in Britain have published a list of the disease-causing viruses they believe pose the greatest risk to ...

The disease has resulted in millions of animals being culled as the close contact with humans poses a great risk.

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

The UKHSA director warns the circulating strain of bird flu has the potential to become a pandemic after a case of bird flu ...

The first known case of bird flu in a sheep anywhere in the world has been found on a Yorkshire farm. The case was identified ...