China and the European Union have suspended imports of chicken meat from Brazil, the world鈥檚 biggest exporter of the commodity, after an outbreak of bird flu on a farm in the South American country, officials said Friday...
A study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that people can transmit bird flu to their domestic cats, with fatal consequences....
The patient, aged over 65, had been hospitalised in the southern state since at least mid-December, when the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced it as the country鈥檚 first serious case of human infection from the H5N1 virus...
The bird flu virus found in a severely ill patient hospitalised in the United States has mutated to become better adapted to human airways...
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said that 鈥榝urther鈥� cases of bird flu were detected in Norfolk, east England and East Riding of Yorkshire, northeast England in the past week...
The World Health Organization said Wednesday a person in Mexico had died in the first confirmed human case globally of infection with the H5N2 variant of bird flu.
A second case of bird flu has been found in a human, US health authorities announced on Wednesday, less then two months after the first one as an outbreak of the disease circulates widely among dairy cows.....
United States health authorities on Tuesday said that they had discovered fragments of bird flu virus in the nation鈥檚 pasteurised cow milk supply during the course of a large study, but the samples likely posed no health risk to humans...
The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said on Friday, though how long the...
The World Health Organization voiced alarm on Thursday at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an 鈥榚xtraordinarily high鈥� mortality rate...