When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...

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 warning from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization came on March 17, the same day the a new U.S. outbreak of ...

The active and ongoing global spread of avian influenza virus has impacted more than 14 million birds in Canada and 160 ...

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...

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

As the world creeps closer to a bird flu pandemic, fears over transmission to humans grow. Could infected raw milk spread the ...

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

FAO Deputy Director-General Godfrey Magwenzi described the spread of the disease as unprecedented, “leading to serious ...

Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...