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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BUDAPEST, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Hungary has detected the H5N8 bird flu virus in ducks on a poultry farm in the eastern county of Bekes, the Hungarian food safety authority NEBIH said in a statement on ...

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 ...

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 ...