On Heard Island, a remote Australian subantarctic island some 4,000 km southwest of Perth, scientists were concerned after ...

Bird flu, or H5N1, has touched most of the globe, but there is one spot it hasn't reached. Researchers down under are preparing for it, but gaps in bird flu surveillance elsewhere makes it difficult.

Finding that vampire bats along Peru’s coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises concerns that multiple bat species could become ...

A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest population of the marine mammal, have died in two years. H5N1 avian flu is ...

Following the first human death from the H5N5 strain of bird flu, experts are warning the virus, of which a number of strains ...

Following mass deaths within a population of elephant seals, H5N1 has been officially confirmed on Heard Island.

A new vaccine to protect dairy and poultry workers from bird flu does not require a needle and works against multiple strains of the H5N1 virus, researchers at the University of Maryland Center for ...

Pasteurization completely inactivates the H5N1 bird flu virus in milk — even if viral proteins linger. Drinking properly pasteurized milk contaminated with avian influenza remnants won’t increase ...

Authorities say bird flu poses a low risk to people right now, but in animals - both wild and domestic - it's causing global ...

A dangerous type of bird flu virus (called H5N1) continues to circulate among dairy cows in the US. The virus targets the mammary gland's milk-secreting epithelial cells, causing painful infections in ...

On November 13, Spain's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food imposed the confinement of all free-range poultry farms to curb the spread of avian influenza—more commonly known as "bird ...

A person in the Washington State has died of avian influenza. It’s the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. since January—but the infection was of a different strain than the one that has been ...