Bobbi Pritt, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic, has revealed the conditions required for bird ...

Bobbi Pritt, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic, has opened up about conditions required for ...

Human cases of bird flu have been detected before in the UK, Russia and China but concern has mounted as the US reported its ...

A 65-year-old patient in Louisiana died after contracting the H5N1 strain of bird flu, with an expert warning that the virus ...

According to the NHS four strains of bird flu have been known to affect humans including H5N1 (since 1997), H7N9 (since 2013), H5N6 (since 2014) and H5N8 (since 2016) Although H5N1, H7N9 and H5N6 ...

A recent bird flu death has sparked fears that a "brand-new virus" could potentially mutate under the right conditions and ...

South Korea has confirmed its 20th case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) for this winter season at an egg <a target= ...

However, she said, since 2018 there have been no reports of new cases in humans. Meanwhile, the H5N6 and H9N2 variants have been reported in several cases in China, but these two variants have never ...

Most of them don't infect humans. Although H5N1, H7N9 and H5N6 don't infect people easily and aren't usually spread from human to human, several people have been infected around the world ...

There are other forms of highly pathogenic bird flu, including H5N6, H5N8, H7N9 and H7N7, and there are also other forms of the virus considered low pathogenic. "Influenza A viruses cause ...