From worries about food safety to egg prices, Americans have questions about the bird flu. This strain of bird flu, also known as H5N1, is not entirely new. It's been detected in a variety of bird ...

At the site of the Shropshire farm outbreak, the killing and disposal of a million egg-laying birds continues A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu. The UK ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Restrictions have been placed on the whole of England and Scotland to try to slow the spread of bird flu. All bird keepers, from people with pet birds to farmers with huge flocks, are now required ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

A bird flu prevention zone enforcing strict hygiene standards around domesticated birds has been declared for the whole of England. A rising number of cases and risk avian influenza poses to wild ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? All this raises the question: If bird flu is killing animals right and left, and has killed at least one human, should we be worried?

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the individual in the West Midlands region "had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds", but would not say where the farm was.

The US must strengthen measures to control the country’s bird flu outbreak and curb the growing risk that the virus will evolve to spread more easily between humans, international health experts ...