Fowl pox is mainly spread by biting or sucking insects and directly through contact with infected birds through broken skin, oral or respiratory routes. The causative virus is very resistant and ...

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer variant of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with ...

More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the ...

While a pandemic is not inevitable, the spread of the bird flu virus, also known as H5N1, has surpassed worrisome milestones ...

Fowl pox is a disease that occurs worldwide ... linear double stranded DNA viruses. The virus comes from the same family as the viruses that cause sheep, goat and cow pox. Its incubation is ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...