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

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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 ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

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

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

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

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 ...