Former WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has warned a future pandemic could be 'much worse than coronavirus'.

Clare Howard was one of the first people to be vaccinated against the bird flu strain The first volunteers in the UK have been immunised with a vaccine to protect against a potential bird flu pandemic ...

Virologists and public health specialists have warned about the pandemic threat for years. H5N1, a problem in chickens for decades, first infected humans in 1997, in an outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has long ceased to be just a problem for birds. Since its arrival in the United States in 2014, the virus has aggressively expanded its territory, ...

Experts warn that while the virus is "evolving and spreading" rapidly among animals, and does not yet easily transmit between ...

A university is looking for volunteers to try out a new vaccine to protect humans against a potential bird flu pandemic. The University of Nottingham is going to be helping to deliver the national ...

Bird flu has flown off the national news radar, with only scattered, local reports of dead birds in parks and poultry farms. Is it simply no longer a concern, or have cuts to federal science funding ...