Well-trained students and scientists are the boots on the beach collecting the samples and observations needed to help a ...

Experts are closely monitoring the marine animals, flagging mortalities and advising beach visitors to take extra precautions ...

H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has long ceased to be just a problem for birds. Since its arrival in the United States in 2014, the virus has aggressively expanded its territory, ...

Multiple elephant seal pups along the Northern California coast have tested positive for the deadly avian influenza, or bird ...

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A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the devastation of COVID-19, if the H5N1 virus mutates to spread easily ...

A little-known variant of bird flu has evolved to become better adapted to infecting people and could pose a pandemic threat to humans, a team of researchers has warned. The strain, called H9N2, is ...

Two weeks after scientists confirmed the first-ever outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, in elephant seals along the ...

Concerns are rising about the potential for the H5N1 bird flu virus to cause a pandemic like covid-19. But the situation this time around is very different: we know how to fight influenzas very well, ...

Whether or not it arrives on the wings of a bird, UB influenza experts are underscoring the importance of advancing research aimed at improving vaccine production and creating new ways to attack ...

It’s one of the worst nightmares facing epidemiologists: that the bird flu virus rampaging through poultry farms around the world could make the leap to human hosts. Now, researchers in India have ...

LONDON - Steve Williams walked into the Sperling drugstore clutching a prescription for Tamiflu, a medicine that some experts think may help people survive a lethal strain of bird flu that already is ...