The Federal Court of Appeal rejected an appeal by Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., seeking to block a Canadian Food ...

As the Southeast Asian state confirms its 15th human case this year, more outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have also been confirmed in Cambodian poultry.

Defra’s updated bird flu guidance adds new biosecurity demands for shoots and rearing sites, with stricter feeding and buffer ...

A B.C. ostrich farm has lost its case to save its birds from a cull order issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA ...

Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have developed a new, proof-of-concept vaccine to protect people from the ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is highly infectious in birds and usually fatal. While it doesn't spread to humans nearly as much, it has a high fatality rate.

Biologist Valeria Falabella’s voice breaks as she describes the devastating scene. It was October 2023 when she and her team ...

Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at medRxiv.org. The finding, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, raises the ...

Learn how avian influenza is affecting bird populations and the importance of biosecurity measures in prevention.

The appropriations bill allocates funding for the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostics Lab to increase its testing ...

Bird flu is usually associated with the winter and migratory birds, but seabirds were very badly hit in 2022 and researchers say the H5N1 virus is again affecting them. A consortium of UK scientific ...

Over the past two weeks, Great Britain is the only European country to have confirmed new outbreaks of highly pathogenic ...