A bird flu virus that has often been ignored because it mostly causes minor disease in birds has the potential to cause a ...

Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet.

Outbreaks of avian flu in Asia have caused widespread concern, but the virus is not yet able to pass from one human being to another. If it mutates, there could be a pandemic, and health officials say ...

In a bid to get ahead of the next global flu pandemic, scientists have turned to a surprising tool: bird poop. In remote parts of the Indian Ocean and Oceania — regions often neglected during global ...

"In principle, the H5N1 virus has everything it takes to trigger a pandemic," says virologist Klaus Stöhr in a report. Bird ...

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