Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers who are in frequent contact with potentially sick animals are at high risk of bird flu infection. Costfoto/NurPhoto via ...

H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first recorded human case of an H5N5 avian influenza virus. What is this virus and ...

IN-PREPared: The Indiana State Board of Animal Health has confirmed cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in northeast Indiana. As millions of wild birds traverse the state during peak ...

Italy’s Ministry of Health recorded a human infection with influenza A(H9N2) on March 25, 2026, in a patient from the Lombardy region. The case is the first time this low-pathogenicity avian flu ...

Researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) work to control bird flu in Indonesia. ILRI photo by Barbara Wieland. Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the ...

In a bid to get ahead of the next global flu pandemic, scientists have turned to a surprising tool: bird poop. In remote parts of the Indian Ocean and Oceania — regions often neglected during global ...

A recent Views & Comments article published in Engineering highlights advances in repurposing influenza viruses as flexible ...