The Latest Breaking News from Bird Flu

A teen in Canada may be the first person to catch an H5 bird flu virus within the country. Health officials are now working to confirm the diagnosis.

All bird species have declined in number, after suffering habitat loss, pesticide use, climate breakdown and bird flu

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to spread and cause severe symptoms in other mammals.

Some experts say mass human-to-human transmission of this strain of bird flu is only a matter of time.

Federal health officials are calling for more testing and treatment of workers on farms with bird flu

Defra says avian influenza confirmed at business in Hornsea, with a protection zone put in place around farm

The outbreak in Yorkshire is the first case of the H5N5 strain in non-wild birds in England.

The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird flu.

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020. But why were we worrying specifically about pigs? And does this case – detected on a farm in…