Category: Avian Influenza
Cambodia records more avian flu cases in poultry, people
Watt Poultry Since the start of August, the Cambodian medical authority has confirmed three further infections with influenza A(H5N1) virus. This brings the nation’s total so far this year to 15, according to the latest update on the health situation in the Western Pacific Region from the World Health Organization (WHO; as of August 15). The most recent cases […]
Aug 27, 2025
Seventy U.S. Bird Flu Cases Underscore How Much We Still Don’t Know
Forbes When a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus jumped into American dairy cows in the spring of 2024, scientists worried about the next step: spillover into humans. Sure enough, that is precisely what happened. Between March 2024 and May 2025, seventy human H5N1 infections were confirmed in the United States. Now, a new study in Nature Medicine, led […]
Aug 27, 2025
Bird flu hits three poultry farms in southern Bulgaria
The Poultry Site Bulgaria reported outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza on three farms in the southern part of the country, Reuters reported, citing the World Organisation for Animal Health on Monday, as Europe faces a seasonal upturn in the deadly disease. The H5N1 virus was detected on three farms with a total flock of 28,000 birds […]
Aug 27, 2025
Promising bird flu vaccine advances as organoids reveal how H5N1 scars airways
Medical Express Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have developed a new, proof-of-concept vaccine to protect people from the bird flu strain currently circulating in the United States. The team, led by Professor Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Ph.D. and Staff Scientist Ahmed M. Elsayed, Ph.D., recently published initial results in npj Vaccines. The live attenuated vaccine contains a weakened (attenuated) […]
Aug 20, 2025
Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After All
Scientific American Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms. The H5N1 avian influenza virus can now be found not only in milk and on milking equipment but also in farm wastewater and in the air, say researchers who have been trying […]
Aug 13, 2025
Tracking HPAIV H5 through a geographic survey of Antarctic seabird populations
Nature An extensive survey for the detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus (HPAIV) H5 in seabird species is reported here. It was conducted between December 2023 and January 2024, in thirteen breeding sites spanning from the northeastern sector of the Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea, including the coasts of the Bellingshausen Sea and […]
Aug 13, 2025
Where Did Bird Flu Go?
American Scientific Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts warn that it hasn’t disappeared. For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was rapidly sweeping through hundreds of herds of dairy cattle […]
Jul 30, 2025
The Invisible Toll of Bird Flu on Wildlife
Scientific American Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at scales no one fully understands. 25,669 Northern Gannets in Canada.134 harbor and gray seals along the coast of Maine.21 California Condors in the western U.S. These are just a tiny fraction of the […]
Jul 30, 2025
This is How We Fight Bird Flu If H5N1 Becomes the Next Human Pandemic
Scientific American This San Antonio, Tex., lab takes biosecurity seriously. Suit up with its scientists and go behind the scenes of the science of vaccine creation. This is the final episode of our three-part series on bird flu. Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 On Wednesday, we met scientists who are getting their hands dirty with […]
Jul 30, 2025
How Bird Flu Became a Human Pandemic Threat
Scientific American The first hints that a new strain of avian illness is emerging could be found on this beach on Delaware Bay, where migrating birds flock. Here’s what virus detectives who return there every year know right now. H5N1 bird flu has been making a lot of headlines since last year, and for good […]
Jul 30, 2025