Serious gaps in testing animals and people could be obscuring the true rate of avian influenza cases in the US and make it difficult to understand how the H5N1 virus is spreading – and how to stop it,

Over the past four years, a silent pandemic has been raging. One in which the death toll is believed to number in the hundreds of millions, but which has received remarkably little attention until now

Avian flu typically spreads by infecting wild birds and moving along migration routes, but the virus currently running rampant in the US is about to be transported across the Atlantic by plane. This c

Results of tests run by the Food and Drug Administration show that pasteurization is working to kill off bird flu in milk and other dairy products, the agency says. "In addition to preliminary results

Jessica Wildfire Apr 28, 2024 Photo by CDC on Unsplash April 28 2024 11:13 AM 5 min read Share Email Everyone's talking about bird flu now. It's an evolving situation. Right now, the mainstream news m

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Watch 3 days ago Features correspondent Ben Wallis (Credit: Ben Wallis) Bird flu is decimating wildlife around the world and is now spreading in cows. In the handful of human cases seen so far it has

Dairy cows being moved across states must be tested for the bird flu, under a federal order issued on Wednesday aimed at containing the spread of the virus across US cattle farms. The clampdown comes

A person in Texas has been diagnosed with bird flu, an infection tied to the recent discovery of the virus in dairy cows, health officials said on Monday. The patient is being treated with an antivira

As recent history proves, airborne respiratory infections are not to be trifled with. Now, a new sprayable coating applied to standard air filters might give us a leg up in the war against the pathoge

Humanity is facing a bizarre new pandemic threat, scientists have warned. Ancient viruses frozen in the Arctic permafrost could one day be released by Earth’s warming climate and unleash a major disea

A polar bear has been killed by bird flu as the highly contagious H5N1 virus spreads into the most remote parts of the planet. The death was confirmed in December by the Alaska Department of Environme

When the mule deer buck died in October, it perished in a place most humans would consider the middle of nowhere, miles from the nearest road. But its last breaths were not taken in an isolated corner

Dec 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert on Thursday to notify clinicians and health departments about a deadly type of the mpox virus spreadin

Public Health There's more danger to the pneumonia outbreaks than we're being told. Jessica Wildfire Dec 2, 2023 Rawpixel December 02 2023 1:11 AM 6 min read Share Email A dangerous strain of pneumoni

November 28, 2023, 2:01 PM In Beijing and other megacities in China, hospitals are overflowing with children suffering pneumonia or similar severe ailments. However, the Chinese government claims that

Advertisement Watch 27 November 2023 BBC News Getty Images James's flamingos, also known as puna flamingos, live at high altitude in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru An outbreak of bird flu has kill

Advertisement Watch 24 November 2023 BBC News Mayur Kakade China has reported no "unusual or novel pathogens" in clusters of child pneumonia cases, the World Health Organization has said. Beijing has

Whether it begins next week, next year, or next decade, another pandemic is on its way. Researchers can’t predict precisely when or how the outbreak might begin. Some 1.6 million viruses are estimated

Unica Cardoso, 35, center in blue-purple headwrap, waits in line for malaria medication after testing positive for the disease at a health center in Nametil, Mozambique, in August. (Jahi Chikwendiu/Th

Advertisement Watch 25 February 2023 Digital health editor Getty Images UK health experts are sharing details of their Covid-style plans against bird flu, including modelling for the unlikely scenario

Advertisement Watch 24 February 2023 BBC News Getty Images The recent bird flu outbreak has been circling the globe since October 2021. An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from the country's firs

With three highly contagious respiratory viruses sickening adults and children around the country and holiday gatherings just weeks away, public health officials are beginning to talk about face masks

A New Jersey resident infected with monkeypox died last month, the state Department of Health announced Monday in a statement. It’s the first monkeypox-related fatality in the state, officials noted.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan officials have reported 11 more cases of Ebola in the capital since Friday, a worrisome increase in infections just over a month after an outbreak was declared in a remote pa

The cases of Covid-19 are on the rise across the UK, millions of people are thought to be infected with the virus. Figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that almost 4% of

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Watch 5 July 2022 Business reporter, BBC News EPA British Airways has cancelled a further 1,500 flights, mostly for July. The wave of cancellations made over the past weeks will affect tens of thousan

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Going into the Fourth of July weekend, with nearly 13 million people expected to fly on U.S. carriers, we look at the numbers behind the delays and cancellations and see what lessons can be learned. By Heather Murphy More people flew out of airports in the United States on Sunday — 2.46 million…

After a recent trip to St. Louis, Ruth Peebles finally made it back home in Los Angeles. But by the time her plane touched down in Burbank, she had spent $800 on a one-way ticket after her original fl

I’ve been in the cybersecurity industry for about twelve years now, and I’ve been making a decent living from it for about four or five. (I struggled in obscurity for a long time, no one is an overnig

Overseas airlines are having to cancel hundreds of flights as they grapple with coronavirus-related staffing shortages weeks after they ditched rules requiring passengers and staff to mask up in the a

TOKYO — President Biden said Monday that he did not believe a quarantine to prevent the spread of monkeypox in the United States would be necessary, saying there are sufficient vaccine doses available

LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is set to hold an emergency meeting to discuss monkeypox on Friday, according to sources close to the U.N. agency. The committee due to meet is