Though suspected outbreaks have been documented since 1878, the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) called influenza A H5N1 occurred in Scotland in ...

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 ...

The H5N8 virus, which has killed a large number of wild birds until now, was identified in Yulin, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. Local authorities have initiated an emergency response, disposing ...

Seven workers at a poultry plant in Russia's south were infected with the H5N8 strain after an outbreak in birds in December last year. Russia has reported the world's first case of a strain of bird ...

Vietnam has confirmed the first outbreak of the H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in its northern province of Quang Ninh. On July 1, the virus was found in samples from a chicken farm ...

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 ...

Finland was the first country to offer the zoonotic avian influenza A(H5N8) vaccine manufactured by Seqirus to at-risk ...

Eight European countries have reported highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N8) viruses in wild birds, zoo birds and poultry holdings. This is the second time this virus has been introduced ...

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 ...

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 ...