A recent Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease journal study assessed the prevalence of the avian influenza H5N8 virus among birds to determine its pervasiveness based on geographical locations and ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Reports of an H5N8 influenza virus spreading among birds across the globe understandably have generated concern. However, H5 viruses do not pose a direct threat to the health of the vast majority of ...

Health officials said the US man keeps a mixed backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds.

Tímea Tatár-Kis, Ádám Dán, Balázs Felföldi, Adám Bálint, Zsuzsanna Rónai, Gwenaelle Dauphin, Zoltán Pénzes, John El-Attrache, Yannick Gardin and Vilmos Palya The most recent pandemic clade of highly ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities on Saturday confirmed a second case of the H5N8 strain of bird flu in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with the virus found in a wild bird. The strain ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In winter 2016–2017, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N8 virus spread in France, causing an unprecedented epizootic. During the ...

Seven poultry workers in Southern Russia were infected with the A(H5N8) strain of the bird flu, according to Anna Popova, the Head of the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights ...

Scientists have discovered a route of introduction for High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) H5N8 into Japan and, in parallel, have investigated the potential of two human anti-influenza ...

PARIS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The French farm ministry said on Tuesday that highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu had been found on a duck farm in the southwest of the country, confirming France's first farm ...

Covid fuels the current virus pandemic, but the world is full of flu viruses waiting in the wings. And they keep changing unpredictably. By James Gorman When a bird flu virus struck a major poultry ...

Concerns about the bird flu A (H5N8) has prompted efforts to keep wild birds from contacting the swan population in Brugge, Belgium. (Photo by KURT DESPLENTER/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images) Well, ...