As egg prices continue to soar across the country, there are new concerns about bird flu as a new strain was discovered at a ...

A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and ...

Scientists also know a lot more about H5N1 bird flu than they did the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the US has been preparing for the threat of a new flu outbreak ... in Southern China in 1996.

This happens when a flu virus' hemagglutinin (HA) binds to a receptor. In the case of flu, the receptor contains sialic acid ...

COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and norovirus—have created what experts are calling a "quad-demic" in the U.S. Here's what to know ...

Most were treated with flu antivirals and fully recovered. H5N1 is not new ... Cambodia and China. The case fatality rate varies by strain of bird flu. H7N9, another type of bird flu known ...

Avian flu outbreaks date back centuries, when it was once known as "fowl plague," but this outbreak is unique. This time, the virus is adapting to the environment in new ways, infecting a record ...

The H5N1 avian flu virus was first identified in China in 1996. Since then about 900 ... it happens I think we can control," he said. "It's kind of like a train that has already left the station.

With reports of the first human death from bird flu ... it's not a new virus. Scientists have been tracking it for almost three decades. It was first identified in geese in Southern China in ...