Health experts told Newsweek about the threats posed by the viruses and shared the best ways to protect oneself.

The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states. Now at least ...

The HPAI H5N1 virus has spread globally, infecting birds, mammals, and some humans. Most human cases are mild.

Bird flu is more likely to come to the Antarctic Peninsula with migratory birds. In December 2023 and January 2024, 16 Adelie ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed 61 human cases nationally since April, 2024, mostly in ...

Apart from H5N1 influenza virus or bird flu, which has set the alarm bell ringing in the US, malaria tuberculosis, HIV are ...

A new bird flu mutation of H5N1 has been discovered in a patient in the US state of Louisiana. Public health officials are concerned the new strain may rapidly develop, increasing its ability to ...

First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first ...

As we enter 2025, Dr. Theresa Tam has her eye on H5N1 bird flu, an emerging virus that had its first human case in Canada ...

New Zealand officials said on Tuesday that testing showed they had contained the strain of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu ...

There has been a spike in pelicans with suspected botulism dying on the NSW Central Coast in recent weeks. But the symptoms ...

A highly lethal virus that spreads easily in some birds is causing a significant die-off of an invasive dove species in the ...