Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next ...

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu travelled 6,600 kilometres over the sea to Kerguelen Island, which is just 440km from Australia's Heard Island.

Experts warn that South Africa is on the brink of an avian influenza disaster, urging the government to act swiftly to ...

Australia has failed to undertake any testing of wildlife for the high pathogenicity avian influenza H5N1 virus on its Heard and McDonald Island territories this summer, despite French researchers ...

The Canadian Medical Association Journal is urging Canada to step up its research funding to fill a void expected to be left ...

The department of forestry, fisheries and environment has confirmed the presence of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory of Marion Island.

Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in northern England, the first known case of its kind in the world, Britain's ...

After traveling back to her college apartment following the University of Georgia's winter break, Savannah Bowden, a senior ...

had antibodies to H5N1 in September, suggesting recent infection. Two of them reported no exposures to infected animals, and the third practiced in Georgia and South Carolina, which have had no known ...