The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

New Zealand officials said on Tuesday that testing showed they had contained the strain of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu that infected a farm this month.

New Zealand officials say they have contained an outbreak of bird flu to a single site in the southern region of Otago.

Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to ...

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

Five years after Covid-19 reached New Zealand shores, we are bracing for the arrival of another deadly virus: a strain of bird flu called H5N1. Follow Our Changing World on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio ...

Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu , but some experts are puzzling over why reports of new human cases have stopped.

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

Mateo Deveraturda of Napier, New Zealand died on Tuesday, June 25 after catching a 'routine flu' that left him in the ...

After the ban of conventional cages, producers had the option to move to colony cages, barns and free-range systems.