The death from bird flu of a person in Washington is a reminder that avian flu is circulating widely during flu season, ...

Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering ...

A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the ...

The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the head of France's Institut ...

A global analysis of more than 18,000 bird flu samples collected over the past decade warns that the virus' rapid evolution and increasing ability to infect mammals could significantly raise future ri ...

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...

Health officials have been warning about the threat of a bird flu pandemic for months and are seemingly frustrated that the public does not seem concerned. There is no certainty that bird flu will ...

A bird flu virus that has often been ignored because it mostly causes minor disease in birds has the potential to cause a human pandemic, says a team that has tracked how the H9N2 virus has become ...