The Latest Breaking News from Bird Flu

Avian influenza (“bird flu”) is a highly contagious viral infection that affects wild and domestic birds worldwide. It has recently gained notoriety for its devastating impact on the commercial poultry sector and as an emerging human public health threat.

It has ravaged farms, decimated wild birds and spilled onto mammals. Could avian flu spark the next human pandemic? The Down to Earth team takes a closer look.

Current risk of transmission from birds to humans remains low, but vaccine producers are ready to prepare a new shot “within months”

Scientist warns diagnostic testing capacity is not advanced enough to cope with virus if it jumps to humans

People are being urged to stay away from dead animals after bird flu was found in a number of dead seals on the Cornish coast.

The five seal carcasses were discovered on a beach in Cornwall

They say we are "sleepwalking into another pandemic"

Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral infection of birds, commonly called “bird flu”, which has been recurring in Nigeria since 2006. It has resulted in the loss of millions of birds and income for people who rely on the poultry industry. Nigeria is currently grappling with another outbreak which…

An outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza that started in 2021 has become the largest bird flu outbreak in history, both in the U.S. and worldwide. In the U.S. the virus has led to the destruction of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese, and has killed thousands of…

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"We’ve been regularly hearing about outbreaks of newly emerging or re-emerging viruses"