A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the devastation of COVID-19, if the H5N1 virus mutates to spread easily ...

Bird flu may be particularly severe in humans because the viruses have shown to be resistant to fever - one of our body's ...

A multi-agency response swung into action on 28 Nov. after avian influenza was detected in birds in Grand Cayman.

Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering ...

They were admitted to hospital, and on November 14 officials confirmed that tests showed infection with an H5N5 avian ...

Kroeker-Klassen says Manitoba farmers want to supply nearly the entire Canadian market. Some eggs enter from abroad through ...

Fever slows seasonal flu by blocking viral replication, but bird-flu strains resist heat. New research reveals why—and what ...

New research from the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow highlights a worrying trait of avian influenza (bird flu) viruses ...

For decades, the flu virus in the shots you’re offered every fall has been grown in chicken eggs. Now, scientists are trying ...

Bird flu viruses can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever- one of the body’s ways of stopping viruses in their tracks-, increasing the threat to humans, according to new research.

An unusually early outbreak of bird flu cases affecting high numbers of wild birds and poultry farms across Europe and North ...

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...