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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some experts have raised alarms about the potential for another pandemic as numbers of H5N1 avian influenza infections rise in ...

Virologists across the globe are raising alarms over the spread of the H5N1 avian flu virus, which is now infecting not just birds, but cattle and humans. While the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

The H5N1 strain has a history of causing severe illness in humans, with a global death rate of about 48 percent between 2003 and 2025, based on nearly 1,000 cases reported to the World Health ...

Scientists have sounded the alarm on antibiotic resistance for more than 50 years. Yet, because of government inaction, more than 35,000 Americans will die this year from a preventable pandemic.

Osofsky is a wildlife veterinarian and the Jay Hyman professor of wildlife health and health policy at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The Trump administration recently canceled ...

Though it has decimated poultry flocks and has become common in cattle, bird flu remains rare in humans, with just 70 confirmed cases nationwide. For the moment, the virus has not evolved the ability ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads across all 50 states, impacting US dairy farms and leading to human infections. Here's what to know.

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 ...