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 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 ...

New 'transactional' US global health agreements offer US aid for combatting HIV and other health threats in return for what critics say is expansive US access to resources.

When it comes to infectious diseases in the news, you often hear terms like outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and endemic. The differences in these terms comes down to the scope of ...

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

'The next pandemic is really a question of when, not if,' virus specialist says ...

Over 150,000 chickens were culled in Maharashtra after an H5N1 bird flu outbreak. While ICMR and NCDC are monitoring, no human cases are reported. Experts assert human-to-human transmission is rare, ...

New vaccine momentum reflects growing urgency of avian influenza (H5N1) threat and reinforces need for coordinated global preparedness, building on prior analysis published in The Lancet Regional Heal ...

Experts consulted by Newsweek say hantavirus is unlikely to spark a pandemic because it transmits poorly between people.