Spain has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a fattening turkey farm in the southwestern region of ...

Spain has reported a significant outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu strain at a turkey farm in Extremadura. The avian influenza ...

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The fatality rate for H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans has historically been high, with more than half of people dying. Why, then, is the current H5N1 bird flu outbreak—which has ...

Spain has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus on a farm north of Madrid, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday, adding to a wave of cases in ...

Spain has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a fattening turkey farm in the southwestern region of Extremadura, Reuters reported, citing the World Organisation for Animal ...

“Such outbreaks of avian flu in mink farms are highly suboptimal,” Francois Balloux, a professor at the University College London’s Genetics Institute wrote, “as they create natural ‘passaging ...

In experiments conducted in a biosafety level 3 facility, the researchers studied ferrets that had antibodies to seasonal flu ...

Perhaps the most notable is the so-called “Spanish flu” of 1918–1919, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates “an avian-like H1N1 virus” killed 50 million ...

Avian flu was long considered the animal disease most likely to break out into a global human pandemic, and even after the onslaught of SARS-CoV-2, many scientists still feel that way.