A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the devastation of COVID-19, if the H5N1 virus mutates to spread easily between people. The H5N1 strain has a history of causing ...

Bird flu is spreading. The avian influenza virus H5N1 has been recorded around the world — in poultry, in wild birds and in mammals, including humans. So, should we be worried about a potential new pandemic? And what can we do about it? This animation ...

It’s one of the worst nightmares facing epidemiologists: that the bird flu virus rampaging through poultry farms around the world could make the leap to human hosts. Now, researchers in India have created modelling to estimate how long authorities would ...

Bird flu has always worried pandemic planners, but a new twist is raising the stakes: scientists are now tracking variants that can keep multiplying even when a human body turns up the heat. A strain that shrugs off fever would not just make people sicker ...

Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, one of the body’s ways of stopping viruses in their tracks, according to new research led by the universities of Cambridge ...

Moderna announced Thursday it will receive up to $54.3 million from a global vaccine partnership to fund its ongoing research into a potential bird flu mRNA vaccine, helping to recover some of the funding that was cut off when the federal government ...