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In 2021, avian influenza evolved into a new form – a new and remarkably lethal variant first found in Europe.

The National Health Security Office is preparing to order an additional 860,000 influenza vaccine doses, bringing the stockpile to 5.26 million doses to immunise vulnerable groups.

Housing among the largest livestock reserves across the world, India is at “risk and vulnerable”, to the on-going worst-ever outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) worldwide admits the Central Government

Conservationists call for national response plan for possible arrival of HPAI H5, which so far has affected 300 species worldwide

Learn about the spread of H5N1, which has caused 50 million bird deaths and has now spread to mammals. Read more on The Hindu.

There are now a range of home tests that can distinguish between flu and COVID with one swab. Here's what you need to know.

If you have respiratory symptoms as we head towards winter and flu season, could it be COVID or the flu? Or something else entirely?

Women are more vulnerable to severe respiratory infections caused by a variety of viruses during pregnancy, including influenza A virus (IAV), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Read further on Dynamite News:

The UK government recently announced that as of April 18, poultry and captive birds can be kept outside again as the threat from bird flu eases. These mandatory housing measures were introduced across England and Wales in the autumn of 2022 following the unprecedented spread of bird flu in the…

"Long COVID appears to manifest as a post-viral syndrome of no greater incidence or severity than seasonal influenza," a release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology Infectious Diseases has said.

Scientists raise alarm over avian influenza strain’s unprecedented deadliness and reach from farmed poultry and wild birds