In a media release on November 20, the British Antarctic Survey, BAS, acknowledged the first avian influenza case on Bird Island in October 2023, (on the brown scuba population) adding that the ...

Argentina's Higher Council for Scientific Investigation (CSIC) revealed that the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus had been detected on the Antarctic mainland, marking the first instance of ...

The presence of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) was confirmed on Thursday 11 January for the first time in mammals in sub-Antarctica. The disease was detected in elephant and fur seals ...

The H5N1 virus has a ways to go before it can successfully jump to humans but that it doesn’t reduce the threat it poses.

As bird flu continues to threaten animals and public health, the U.S. government has stepped up its response. Experts says it's not robust enough.

Avian influenza first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown exponentially, alongside an ...

Georgia has reported cases of bird flu in three flocks. Here's a closer look at the virus, where it is, and how dangerous it ...

The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World ...

The H5N1 Avian influenza is decimating bird populations around the world. More than 136 million birds have been affected in ...