Kenya’s President Jomo Kenyatta reacted with rage; a mixture of panic and defence of ‘’national sovereignty’’. He did not ...

The new strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus, discovered by a dairy worker on a farm in Texas, is said to be deadly for ...

more dangerous virus that can more easily infect humans. Bird flu was first detected in poultry on the noncommercial farm, the Oregon agriculture department said Friday. State and federal ...

The Syracuse Rosamond Gifford Zoo elephant twins are among the first elephants to receive a groundbreaking new vaccine.

The death rate for Marburg virus can be as high as 90%. There are no approved vaccines and treatments. So how did Rwanda ...

Pigs represent a particular concern for the spread of bird flu because they can become co-infected with bird and human viruses, which could swap genes to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

The government has issued a warning to bird owners after an outbreak of a virus in the UK. The Department of Environment, ...

DOF BirdLife estimates that more than 100,000 Danish blackbirds have died in recent months due to the Usutu virus.The Usutu virus, a deadly disease transmitted by mosquitoes, has significantly ...

H5N1 has the potential to be an extremely dangerous virus for many different animals, and combining its genes with a human virus could make it much more dangerous to us. The risks of that ...

Two more UK cases of a strain of mpox that is thought to spread more easily have been detected in household contacts of the ...

A 2023 avian flu outbreak decimated a Caspian tern colony on Rat Island and spread to harbor seals, posing a new threat to local wildlife. A 2023 epidemiological study revealed that 56% of a large ...