As summer approaches, infectious diseases such as H5N1 — commonly known as bird flu — can spread more easily and potentially ...

The first ever avian influenza vaccine recently started trials in the UK. This marks a milestone in the prevention of bird ...

A look at medical reports from the past few years reveals that many infectious diseases have severely affected people. Whether it's the coronavirus, monkeypox, Nipah virus, or the new strain of ...

A potential case of bird flu jumping from a domestic cat to a human has been documented for the first time. The U.S. Centers ...

While the disease primarily affects birds, health experts say certain strains of the virus, especially H5N1, can occasionally infect humans and cause severe illness.

H5N1 strains have been circulating among wild and domestic birds in the U.S. since 2021. In 2024, it began to cause outbreaks in dairy cows. It also became apparent that cats could catch H5N1 from ...

Since it was first detected in the U.S. in 2014, H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has jumped from wild birds to farm animals and then to people, causing more than 70 human cases in ...

Federal health officials on Thursday called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed that some dairy workers had signs of infection, even when they didn't report ...

Bird flu cases reported in parts of Maharashtra have triggered fresh public health concern, especially after infected poultry were detected in affected zones. While human infections remain rare, ...

In Nandurbar’s Navapur area, 1,93,667 birds from 8 poultry farms were culled between May 1 and May 4 following a bird flu outbreak. Over 8 lakh eggs and 21.22 metric tons of animal feed were destroyed ...

A bird flu outbreak has been reported in a state-run poultry farm in Kozhikode district of Kerala as around 1,800 chickens ...

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