In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

Supply managment experts say Canadian system encourages smaller farms, and that helps limit spread of highlypathogenic avian ...

Stopping culling could increase the risk of bird flu changing in dangerous ways. “The more opportunities the virus has to replicate, the more opportunities it has to mutate and reassort with all ...

In early 2024, the bird influenza ... pathogenic avian flu, though poultry receive a number of other vaccines. There are concerns that vaccination could push the virus to mutate faster.

Mild forms of bird flu are common in wild and ... the more opportunities it will have to mutate into a form easily contracted by humans. If the virus acquires the ability to be more readily ...

The detection of bird flu in a sheep is another sign that the H5N1 virus is adapting to hop to new hosts ...

So far, the bird flu virus has not been found to bind well to human cells or take hold in the human respiratory system. But the virus has already shown a ready ability to mutate, not unlike how ...